Monday, February 26, 2007
Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn?t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They?ll lose their fear of population growth and start appreciating sprawling megacities. They?ll stop worrying about ?frankenfoods? and embrace genetic engineering.
He predicts that all this will happen in the next decade, which sounds rather improbable ? or at least it would if anyone else had made the prediction. But when it comes to anticipating the zeitgeist, never underestimate Stewart Brand.
He divides environmentalists into romantics and scientists, the two cultures he?s been straddling and blending since the 1960s. He was with the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead at their famous Trips Festival in San Francisco, directing a multimedia show called ?America Needs Indians.? That?s somewhere in the neighborhood of romantic.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
MIAMI - Hands and feet bound, smashed with a hammer and a nail driven through her skull, 14-year-old Eileen Adams was found slain in a rural Michigan field in 1968.
Years later, inside a deserted Miami-Dade County restaurant, detectives found a bound Spider-Man doll hanging from the ceiling with a needle stuck through its head.
Two discoveries. Two distinct places. One DNA link, police say: Robert Brent Bowman.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
MIAMI — Two forensic psychology experts testified Thursday that alleged Al Qaeda accomplice Jose Padilla suffered mental damage during his 3 1/2 years in U.S. military custody and was unfit to stand trial on terrorism charges.
Testing and evaluation of the 36-year-old former Chicago gang member revealed "strong indication of cognitive impairment" and a 98% probability of brain injury, said Patricia Zapf, a clinical forensic psychologist and associate professor at City University of New York.
"I believe he is not competent to proceed, that he is not fit to stand trial," Zapf testified as a witness for the defense.
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