Word: interpretative
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...courts tend to apply a "straight face" principle to ambiguities in the law, allowing the government the discretion to interpret congressional statutes as long as those decisions can be defended with a straight face. Both the Federal Court and a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit appeals court have determined that it was reasonable for the INS to interpret applicable immigration statutes to preclude hearing the asylum application filed for six-year-old Elian by his great-uncle, against the express wishes of his father, and the smart money is against that decision being reversed by either a full...
...brain is so complex and neuroscientific experiments are so difficult to interpret that this whole picture could change in a year. Whatever happens with neurogenesis, the fundamental notion that engrams are made by stringing together neurons--whether new ones or old ones or a combination of the two--is likely to survive in some form...
...medical reporter, I'm keenly aware that health news is confusing. And yes, I admit we journalists sometimes distort the issue by reporting results in starkly black-and-white terms, without much nuance or guidance on how to interpret them. Often we raise false hopes and complicate the lives of doctors who have to tell patients that the "cures" they've heard about in the media are still in the future. So when I arrived in steamy New Orleans last week for the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, I knew I would have to be very careful...
Ricky McGinn could be one lucky man. Thanks to a fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved, at least temporarily, by his governor's abrupt change of heart. Thursday afternoon, hours before the scheduled lethal injection, George W. Bush sanctioned a 30-day stay of execution for McGinn...
...List - and briefly interpret - the first ten amendments to the Constitution...