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...Jury," which beats "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" to the voir dire by going inside the deliberations on a different highly charge case every week. From Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, whose cop shows ("Homicide," "The Beat") tend to be more cerebral - and less popular - than the "L&O" franchise...
...Dramas always tend to preview better than sitcoms, so it's hard to say what might be good or bad here - although "Housewives," "Life As We Know It" and "Lost" all inspired curiosity. In other news, "NYPD Blue" ends after next season, having apparently run out of bad things to make happen to Sipowicz. Oprah Winfrey is producing an ABC movie of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," starring Halle Berry. Jessica Simpson, whose sitcom pilot got rejected by ABC, has instead signed a deal to do variety specials for two years, for at least one month...
Extremists and guerrilla warriors tend to be less malleable than criminals, however. And since the military and government agencies operating abroad function with fewer legal constraints, they take more risks. Last spring the Department of Defense finalized a secret "stress matrix" detailing dozens of tactics that could and could not be used at Guantanamo. The document, described to TIME by a lawyer close to the process, permits sleep and sensory deprivation, among other things, under certain conditions. Depending on the personality of suspects, these strategies can be effective, experts say. The idea is to disorient prisoners to the point...
...play a role in the development of asthma. It could also be that the antibiotics used to clear up ear infections somehow increase a child's asthma risk. The study showed that children's ear-infection rates go up as their parents' education level increases, possibly because those kids tend to spend more time in day care...
...ramping up salaries and training and mentoring programs, Kerry would make it easier for schools to fire incompetent teachers. He would also require new ones to pass rigorous tests and tie some rewards for teachers to their students' test scores. Those are not the sorts of things teachers' unions tend to favor. When Kerry spotlights his health-care plans this week, he will stress savings for business more than universal coverage, the Democrats' typical rallying cry. And in coming weeks, the former prosecutor will highlight his tough-on-crime credentials, blasting Bush for cutting back on funding to put cops...