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USAGE Both could claim the doctrine as a defense. While Wilkerson might have been able to simply drive off, the 2005 Florida statute removed the "duty to retreat" mandate, establishing the right to stand one's ground. Less clear is whether the Texas law, which went into effect Sept. 1, applies to a neighbor's home. The state senator who wrote Texas' law recently said that it probably does...
...what's pathological (see sidebar). Studies conducted by Alice Carter, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, suggest that 40% of children ages 7 to 10 are so sensitive to touch that tags in clothing annoy them, and 11% overreact to sirens. But no one would claim that all these kids have a sensory disorder. Carter thinks SPD is too vaguely defined for prime time in the DSM. Instead, she favors adding it to a section at the back of the manual on disorders that warrant further study. Granting it such provisional status would open the door...
...hours a week, the authors say, so the people you work with are likely to know you better than your own family. Where better, then, to find a compatible partner? Co-workers have also been vetted by HR to weed out untruths on their résumés. (Who can claim that about online suitors...
...reform occurs in a mysterious vacuum, removed from students whose interests reformers claim to be considering, it will never be able to legitimately address the Ad Board’s weaknesses, nor the criticism against its secrecy. Even if one feels that students should not be on the Ad Board itself due to privacy reasons—a view with which we disagree—such concerns do not apply to the reform committee. There is thus no defensible reason to exclude students from the committee...
...Despite the initial reluctance to play in the YouTube sandbox, the campaigns all claim to be looking forward to Wednesday's distinctive format, in which about 40 video questions will be tossed their way, all pre-selected by CNN, which will air the forum from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET. Some of those who submitted questions will be sitting in the studio audience and will be allowed to ask follow up queries, adding a flesh-and-blood town-hall challenge to the candidates as well. When the Democrats participated in their YouTube session four months ago, it produced...