Word: maye
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...Harvard may not be the safest campus in America, but it is twice as safe as Yale, a new study reports...
Ashcroft's campaign against Judge White-- and whatever success it may bring to his campaign against Carnahan in 2000--sends the message to all state judges that if they want to get on the federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges...
...With school prayer a hot-button conservative issue, the Supreme Court is under growing pressure to clarify the boundaries of constitutional permissibility of high school piety. Choosing the football game's halftime show as the place to make its ruling may, however, be a mixed blessing to prayer advocates. After all, the Appeals Court in its ruling included something of a religious critique of the idea of halftime prayer when it noted that a football game was "hardly the sober type of... event that can be appropriately solemnized with prayer." But the Supreme Court is unlikely to try and adjudicate...
...beach, no mountains, no shopping, no regional cuisine. There's absolutely nothing within walking distance, and no connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...
...shuttle. Boeing, the primary developer of the International Space Station, is also leading the consortium to build the hotel, and would not rule out that it could be used to house vacationing civilians. It suddenly appears that the trillions the U.S. sank into its space program in the '80s may have been more than simply hubris, creating an infrastructure that will allow it to corner the potentially lucrative private market for space travel in the 21st century. No word yet on the publishing date for the Lonely Galaxy Guide...