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...Nino Scalia's home is his castle. That's one lesson to take from this week's Supreme Court opinion, which he wrote, saying that fancy high-tech devices can't be used outside your home to find out what's going on insidewithout a warrant. It's the latest in a long, tangled line of Fourth Amendment cases for which there's no clear, overarching rationale. Three of the four search-and-seizure decisions the Court has issued this year have been victories for civil libertarians - but some experts say that the decisions don't do much to stanch...
...anti-Federalist Society group being started up by Georgetown University law professor Peter Rubin and a few others, that Scalia was in the dissent in the first two cases and in the majority in the third. So though he is sometimes jokingly known as "Let 'Em Go Nino" for certain rulings he's made in the criminal area, the emphasis is on "jokingly." In a handful of cases - most notably last year's Apprendi v. New Jersey, in which he sided with the majority in holding that juries, and not judges, must make any factual findings on enhancements of penalties...
Glaciers, including the legendary snows of Kilimanjaro, are disappearing from mountaintops around the globe. Coral reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Nino events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears, butterflies and beluga whales are being...
...Nino Milagro, "the miracle child." He was plucked from the waters, like Moses from the bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love...
Conditions have conspired, say scientists, to make the Amazon more vulnerable than ever before. Of most concern is the heightened impact of El Nino, the periodic warming of Pacific waters that plays havoc with the world's weather. El Nino helped cause the 1998 Amazon dry spell, and ecologist Nepstad has studied the vicious circle of drought and fire. The first year of drying and burning sucks vital moisture from the soil and leaves the forest littered with tinder. Sheltering leaves that ordinarily prevent the forest floor from baking in the sun are thinned out. The rainy season may provide...