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DEFINITION cass-ul doc-trin n. Laws, adopted in 20 states over the past two years, named after the idea that a man's home is his castle. They allow citizens to use deadly force to protect their homes, cars and places of business...
There are, they allow, a few pitfalls. The most common is losing your job at a company in which "office-mating" is verboten. However, the authors say that relatively few companies have blanket bans (no pun intended) on interoffice relationships. The bigger problem is the possibility of a messy breakup. Here the authors get starry-eyed, advising couples to have a "prebreakup conversation" at the beginning of the relationship to strategize what they will do if things don't work out. That's easy advice from two women whose respective office romances ended...
...legislation would require professors to offer evaluations for all courses with five or more students, allow students to rate their courses after final exams instead of before exams, and make grades available earlier to students who participate in evaluations...
...model for future research on the disease, Murray said. To this end, she and her team decided to make their genetic data available online. “This is a big step forward,” Murray said. “We are trying to detect mutations that allow organisms to become resistant—what kinds of things might happen in the evolution of these organisms that allows them to be so successful, that allow resistance to happen in the first place.” The genetic sequencing data can be used to study what mutations cause to happen...
Charlesview—the grey, monolithic apartments that were erected in the 1960s—was identified by the federal government as a troubled property in need of repairs in 1995. Jacques said that the future site will allow the community to relocate to up-to-date facilities that give them access to green space while remaining affordable...