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...sect accused of sexual abuse. The custody case, considered the largest in U.S. history, is expected to cost more than $1.5 million a month in housing and medical fees; two teens have given birth in the state's care, although both turned out to be over the age of consent. Officials say they hope to reunite the families but not before parents attend psychological counseling and parenting classes. Lawyers for the parents argue that such plans fail to resolve whether the children will be able to return to the group's compound and what to do about visitations, which...
...Well, apparently she's somebody. The Toledo court took just two days to rule that, willingly or not, Telma is indeed a public figure and therefore not protected by a 1982 law that prohibits the publication of images of private individuals without their consent. "It was a very poorly formulated suit," says Peñafiel. "If she feels like her privacy has been invaded, she should sue the individuals responsible on criminal charges, not try to get 57 institutions - most of whom have treated her with exquisite respect - barred from taking her photo. The judge acted correctly; this...
...coercive humanitarian intervention in Burma wouldn't be without precedent: the U.S. funded and helped coordinate the delivery of aid without the host governments' consent during the wars in Bosnia and southern Sudan. Nor would it be illegal: according to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1674, member states have a "responsibility to protect" populations from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, if their own governments fail to do so (or are responsible for committing the crimes themselves). Burma's crisis--hundreds of thousands of innocents at risk of death because of their rulers' willful neglect--easily meets that standard...
...junta's xenophobia and insecurity, it's a safe bet any outside troops--or worse, foreign relief workers--would be viewed as hostile forces even if the U.S. and its allies made clear that their actions were strictly for humanitarian purposes. To save the Burmese people without their rulers' consent, in other words, we may not have much choice but to shoot...
...that makes other atoms strangelets until it “eventually [converts] all of Earth into a single larger ‘strangelet’ of huge size.” If you don’t like the prospect of being turned into exotic atomic material without your consent, then perhaps you should consider what’s behind door number two: magnetic monopoles, which “catalyze the decay of protons and atoms” leading to “a runaway reaction.” However, my personal favorite is option number three: a micro black...