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...search for a new permanent IOP director began after Glickman left last fall to become chair of the Motion Picture Association of America...
...change Senate rules so that judicial nominees cannot be filibustered. Once the filibuster is eliminated for confirmation, the party in power will likely extend this practice to every “important” piece of legislation that cannot garner the sixty votes to overcome the motion, and a key check on majoritarian power will disappear...
...just sort of stopped mid-motion on the recovery,” Baker said, “and I thought I might have caught a crab. Then I realized my oar wasn’t stuck, but there was a goose kicking and flapping around in the water...
...warns knowledgeable residents to head for safety. More sophisticated techniques include tiltmeters or laser ranging devices to detect deformations in the volcano cone, also caused by magma oozing upward. Seismometers are used to measure harmonic tremor around the volcano, a series of highly rhythmic shock waves associated with the motion of magma inside or beneath the cone. In Hawaii, a harmonic tremor lasting for some four to five minutes nearly always precedes an eruption...
...against Harvard students for sharing music files over a high-speed academic network. The lawsuits are filed under the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act and seek $2,000 per file in compensation—though they’re usually settled for $3,000 out of court. Unfortunately, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) followed suit on Thursday, filing similar lawsuits against students at 12 universities...