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A federal district court judge says the Justice Department may not jail material witnesses indefinitely. "No Congress has granted the government the authority to imprison an innocent person in order to guarantee that he will testify before a grand jury," Judge Shira A. Scheindlin rules.
Early Release
Theresa Wilson is released from prison four years after being sentenced to life without parole for selling $150 worth of morphine. An Alabama court ruled last year that the sentence was cruel and unusual. Now a trial court judge has downgraded her sentence to time served.
Income Outcomes
Surprise! The poor, like everyone else, benefit from economic booms. Incomes for the poorest families not only kept up with the richest in the late 1990s but slightly outpaced them, according to the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy.
Yup With People
Hated yuppies who gentrify neighborhoods help everyone in the community, finds the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. Crime drops, the tax base expands, businesses pop up, and schools improve.
Tortilla Curtain
Mexico passes its first freedom of information law, with lawmakers unanimously backing bills allowing Mexicans a peek at how their tax money is spent. In the past, officials have treated public records like personal property.
Sealab 2002
J. Craig Venter is using $100 million from the fortune he made heading Celera Genomics to find microbes that will cheaply turn carbon dioxide into a solid, keeping the air clean. Venter thinks they might be at the bottom of the sea.
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