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...took the case to civil court depends a lot upon what law applies - Florida law or federal admiralty law. According to Margulies, admiralty law would apply if the vessel transported passengers between a port in the United States and a foreign country. The federal law would allow a negligence claim; Florida law would bar such a claim. Florida holds that waivers signed by a person participating in high-risk activity such as skydiving or shark watching are valid because they are knowingly engaging in risky activity, Margulies says...
...only does Obama still trail the New York Senator by 4 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls, but amongst union voters he trails her 56% to 34% in the latest Cleveland Plain Dealer poll, conducted February 27-29. Either way, Obama can already claim one crucial victory; by effectively splitting labor's endorsements with Clinton, he has prevented her from solidifying what was supposed to be a reliable part of her base...
Finally, the disagreements over Kosovo expose the world's fickleness in determining which secessionist movements deserve international recognition. If Kosovo's supporters were more transparent about the factors that made Kosovo worthy of recognition, they could help shape new guidelines. A claimant has a far stronger claim if, like Kosovo, it is relatively homogeneous and not yet self-governing, if it has been abused by the sovereign government and if its quest for independence does not incite its kin in a neighboring country to make comparable demands. Not all secessionists can clear that bar. Iraq's Kurds, for instance...
...Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
...under the ideology of, “Skate, Snow, and Culture.” For having just opened, Concepts already has an impressive variety of merchandise. As you walk into the store, the left wall is covered with all sorts of Nike, New Balance, and Lacoste sneakers. They also claim to be one of the few stores on the east coast to carry Spring Court, the French brand of shoes that John Lennon wore on the “Abbey Road” album cover. The right wall of the store is lined with up-and-coming trends in male...