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...prosecutors demonstrate at the hearing that there is sufficient evidence to pursue the charges, the trial’s outcome will depend on whether defense attorneys can convince a jury that Ali’s previously diagnosed mental conditions rendered him incapable of forming the specific intent to kill...
Suburban families can afford to pay for good educational opportunities, while parents in enclaves have to depend on ethnic networks, she said...
...economy, even as Ukrainians saw their gas prices soar. "If this country is governed by honest people and the government can survive, people will feel the effects of the economic development plan within a year," he told Polish TV. Ukrainians hope Yushchenko is right; his survival as President may depend...
...assurance that I will not meet a similar fate rationalizes that the times are different. My friends and I are spending our twenties with each other as family. Though some of us have boyfriends and girlfriends, we spend a significant amount of our youth away from home learning to depend on each other. Maybe today’s generations of young people educated away from home and growing up in relative affluence will prime us for maintaining, or at least returning to, these bonds that we are forming now. Among others, one thing that my grandmother and many...
What the Weizmann researchers found was that your ability to recognize certain patterns on a computer screen is directly tied to the amount of REM sleep you get. Such skills depend on something called procedural memory, which is needed for any task that requires repetition and practice. Remembering a fact, like the name of the first U.S. President, is an example of declarative memory, a different kind of capability that apparently is not affected by REM sleep. Says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School: "We were basically naive about memory...