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Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, students at the University of Chicago in 1924, killed a fourteen-year-old boy to experience the thrill of murder. Their attorney, Clarence Darrow, used the new science of psychiatry in his attempt to save Leopold and Loeb from the hangman's noose.

Stanford White had designed Madison Square, the Washington Arch, Judson Memorial Church, and countless other structures in New York in the Gilded Age. He first met Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl, in 1901, drugged and raped her weeks later, and in 1906 Nesbit's husband, Harry Thaw, took his revenge.

The New York Academy of Sciences, established in 1817, has been a center of scientific research for more than two centuries. The Academy has won its reputation through its publications, its natural history survey of Puerto Rico, and research in antibiotics.