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Kim called the first issue an "experiment" which the computer society would work to improve.
The Hance execution comes in the midst of growing scrutiny of the death penalty. A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote an impassioned dissent in which he concluded that "the death-penalty experiment has failed." By contrast, Justice Antonin Scalia, a supporter of capital punishment who is fed...
And yet, Prohibition, America's last experiment in outlawing alcohol use, was not only a fiasco, but broke down in exactly the terms I have already discussed. Eliminating alcohol consumption was a failure because, like cigarette smoking, legislative limits only made it more alluring. People felt the essential unfairness of...
The dispute pits environmentalists against one another: those who worry more about global warming vs. those who fret more about animal welfare. Lindy Weilgart, a Cornell University expert on whale acoustics, pointed out at hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely...
By week's end many marine biologists had been persuaded that the project was acceptable, and government approval seemed likely. The Scripps Institution, for its part, has set aside $2.9 million to study the experiment's effects on marine mammals and promises to pull the plug on the loudspeakers the...