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However, strong defense lawyers are especially necessary in cases where the prosecutors make mistakes. The Texas Defender Service identified 41 cases of prosecutorial misconduct, including many where the same prosecutor changed theories between trials. In one case, Gene Hathorn and James Beathard were both accused of a murder; at the first trial, the prosecutor argued that Beathard was the gunman and secured a death sentence, but at a second, the same prosecutor argued that Hathorn was the gunman and secured another capital conviction. One of those theories has to be factually incorrect--yet Beathard was executed in 1995, and Hathorn...
...human genome project has found that any two people are, genetically speaking, 99.9% identical. And a universal gene that scientists are sure to discover is the one that makes all adult humans regret that they didn't stick with piano lessons. I lasted only a year, when I was 12. This summer, on vacation, I passed a mahogany upright in a hotel lobby, and my fingers itched to open its lid and conjugate the verb "to tinkle." Of course, there was a sign taped to it that read, "Please do not play the piano." No problem. They might as well...
...called community, or distributed, computing, and the phenomenal popularity of SETI@home has spawned something of a distributed-computing craze. This fall several Internet start-ups and not-for-profit groups have launched new initiatives in fields ranging from gene mapping to drug design, hoping to harness spare PC processing cycles and either give them away or sell them to the highest bidder...
Three seventyish friends in the oil business were having lunch at the Petroleum Club one day when the Smith case came up in conversation. Gold digging is a hazard of success, they said. But that never stopped Marshall, said Gene Van Dyke, who owns millions of acres of drilling rights off the west coast of Africa. "I knew his previous mistress, 'Lady' Diane Baker. He met her in a titty bar too, and was madly in love. When you've got that kind of money, blowing $15 million or $20 million on some nimbo bimbo is nothing. His wife...
...with considerable boos and has critics and viewers alike divided on its status as groundbreaking art or inane melodrama. The movie centers around Selma (Bjork), a Czech factory and single mother who is gradually going blind. She endures ordeal after ordeal in an attempt to pay for her son Gene's operation, who we are told will develop the same eye disease as Selma. In order to escape the agony and torment of her own worsening condition, she finds relief in musicals. She goes to the movies with her friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) and also takes part in a local...