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...part of an answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed...
...part of an answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed...
...commonplace particles called neutrinos. One problem with this is that dark matter is massive, and no one knows if neutrinos have mass. Even if they have, in computer simulations they do a poor job of making a recognizable universe. Cold dark matter was another possibility ("cold," in physics jargon, means slow-moving; neutrinos, by contrast, are "hot"). Also known as wimps, for weakly interacting massive particles, these are purely hypothetical particles derived from speculative theories. They perform somewhat better in computer models, but WIMPS can't account for such newly discovered features of the cosmos as Great Walls, Great Voids...
...arise, they are resolved by members thrashing out the dos and don'ts of cyberspace etiquette. Still, there are plenty of elites and hierarchies. Veteran settlers, who look askance at the hordes of newcomers, often form exclusive conferences where they can avoid endless beginner bellyaching about insiderish jokes and jargon. ``There are users and superusers,'' says Jones. ``There are E-mail addresses that have more status than others.'' In other words, the Net is pretty much more of the world we already know: a place both embracing and exclusionary, loving and hurtful. As happened with the telephone and automobile, technology...
Written on the pieces of red paper are students' responses to the question: "Do you strongly identify with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" The responses are plagued by pathos-laden drivel, minority activist jargon and ethnic angst of the Amy Tan variety. They are exactly what one would expect from self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existences...