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...also expected to call to the stand a woman who claims to have engaged in threesomes with Kelly and the female from the video. So far, Kelly's attorneys have presented a powerful argument by questioning the veracity of the tape - which was dubbed widely and sold in DVD form on street corners in major cities across the country. Defense attorneys have also challenged the competence of the case's detectives - questioning, for instance, why they didn't bother to interview Kelly immediately after the tape surfaced. In his opening arguments, defense attorney Sam Adam Jr., said of the tape...
...other form of notable innovation in this area is the E.U.'s own Emission Trading Scheme, which so far has proved a costly (and corrupt) farce by according emitters too much say over the size of emissions permits...
...left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government...
Here's how the study worked: volunteers, Dutch university students, were randomly assigned to one of three experimental groups. Researchers "primed" each group at the outset - using a variety of psychological devices - to feel powerful, powerless or neutral. In one priming exercise, students were asked to form sentences using specific groups of words. The powerful group got words that implied high power, like "authority" or "dominate." The powerless group were given words such as "subordinate" and "obey." The control group got power-neutral words. After completing the word tasks, participants were tested for what Galinsky refers to as "executive function...
...abortion (Obama is pro-choice while McCain has pledged to seat Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade); privatizing Social Security, which McCain supports but which Obama, like most of Florida's massive retiree bloc, opposes; and a federal catastrophe insurance fund, which McCain opposes in the form that passed the House of Representatives this year but which Obama, like so many hurricane-battered Floridians, backs...