Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and now a law professor at George Washington University, says the greatest concern will be to weed out people who want to be on the jury of a notorious case.

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And it can certainly be argued that a more competitive system could weed out the bad docs we might be forced to see by some HMO program looking to save money.

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Employers, too, have sought help from these providers: as unemployment numbers rise, the number of applications received for each posted position increases, and it can be a full time job to simply weed through the submitted resumes looking for potential first-round interviewees.

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Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.

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Today, a year later, a huge weed-filled lot now sits where one Tuscaloosa neighborhood used to be -- part of the huge mile-wide swath that the tornado cut through town at McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street.

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