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Thief uses bed rest study to duck trial

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 22, 1994

Chalk it up to a slow news week, but an Observer reporter was intrigued by space travel research being conducted at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. The NASA-funded study required research subjects to lie in a hospital bed for three solid months to test a drug that prevents...
Fee fight

For lawyers, beating the city is only the beginning

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 15, 1994

To the victor belongs the spoils. Or so the saying goes. But if the victor happens to defeat the city of Dallas, his battle has just begun. Just ask civil rights lawyer Mike Daniel. For the past year, he and fellow lawyer Betsy Julian have been trying to collect their...
Supine science

Research subjects push back the frontiers of space by hitting the sack

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 8, 1994

Lots of people donate their bodies to science. But most of them wait until after they're dead. Not Charlie Procter. For five months earlier this year, the 45-year-old petroleum engineer allowed nurses to probe and prick him dozens of times while drilling for blood; underwent several bone-density sonagram tests forcing...
The Muckraker of Coppell

How a bankrupt former musical-instrument salesman became an award-winning journalist

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 1, 1994

Ticketgate was about to unravel in Coppell. Late one night in early June, Arthur Kwast, the resident gadfly of this shiny suburb northwest of Dallas, was sitting in his house when the phone rang. The caller, talking in furtive tones, detailed how a prominent merchant in town had gotten a...
'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part II)

Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents - or their religion?

By Ann Zimmerman
Nov 17, 1994

Throughout the fall, the Krasniqis diligently abided by the court order. Krasniqi rented an apartment and attended a sexual offender's group treatment program run by Chester Grounds, a staff psychologist with DHS. Grounds said in court that Krasniqi originally admitted in group that he had sexually abused his children, including...
'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part I)

Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents -or their religion?

By Ann Zimmerman
Nov 17, 1994

Most of the houses in this quiet, middle-class Richardson neighborhood look alike --wide, one-story, brick homes with small, manicured front lawns. The home of Sam and Kathy Krasniqi has one distinguishing feature: rain or shine, several pairs of men's and women's shoes can be found lined up on the porch...