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...JURY selection for the child- molestation trial of Michael Jackson held some surprises--most notably how quickly it was completed. Expected to last a month, it took just six court days for lawyers to settle on 12 jurors and eight alternates. There were surprises too in who was picked--and who was not. Of the eight women and four men sworn in as jurors, none are African American, seven are white, three Latino, one Asian and one race unknown. There is one African American among the alternates...
Polls have shown that blacks are more sympathetic to Jackson. But jury consultants scouring the panel say there are members who could be sympathetic to the pop star. A 21-year-old man in a wheel-chair who said he had visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a child expressed disgust at discrimination lawsuits brought against local restaurants by a disabled man. Jury consultant Sarah Murray thought that could presage a lack of sympathy for Jackson's accuser. That juror is "somebody who doesn't like it when people play the victim," says Murray. Another potential obstacle for the prosecution...
Perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science is Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The first African-American woman at M.I.T. to get a Ph.D.--in theoretical physics in 1973--Jackson knows a thing or two about overcoming discrimination. Shot at and spit upon by whites while a college student, she went on to do research at Fermilab and Bell Labs. In 1995 she became chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in 2003 was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general-scientific society...
...Jackson warns that there aren't enough young people (men included) in the pipeline to replace all the talent that flooded the sciences after Sputnik. The looming shortage, she says, will hinder the U.S. economy and national security. So maybe there's a silver lining to the Larry Summers controversy. "It allows us to have a broader conversation about our capacity for innovation," she says. "My focus is on the complete talent pool. It's an all-in proposition from my perspective." --By Julie Rawe
...Howell E. Jackson, The James S. Reid, Jr., Professor...