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...pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week’s decision. That opinion overturned a ruling the week before by Judge Patrick F. Brady of Norfolk Superior Court, who ruled in favor of the Board. Zaroulis added that Currier would take the exam on October 10 and 11 in the event of a favorable decision. She would not say whether Currier would appeal...
...same price), they have little means of communicating this to food suppliers. The easier way is simply to order the “normal” size and throw away the extra. Should restaurateurs be nervous about the potential negative monetary effects of introducing smaller sizes, perhaps public opinion polls could reveal eaters’ preferences. Since, according to a November 2006 Gallup Poll, 58% of Americans were trying to “lose weight,” there might be higher public support than imagined for petite portions...
...Infinite 2) The Assumption Roundhouse “Assuming that we are all agreed on the tenets of liberty/the importance of free speech/ the laws of gravity…” Unspoken: Disagree with me, a-meego, and you’ll receive the roundhouse kick of popular opinion to the gut. I doggy dare you. Effectiveness Factor: 8 Chuck Norris Factor: Avert your eyes in the presence of glory 3) The Facebook Sucker Punch “Is that really what you think? That’s odd, considering (insert allusion to enemy’s dirty Facebook...
...years on, everyone thinks they know what happened on Aug. 31, 1997. But Baker's statement, peppered with phrases like "contradictory evidence" and "perhaps we shall never know," promises a flood of unreliable testimony, conflicting expert opinion and unexplained anomalies that could force everyone to think again. Here are the three key questions that will probably only lead to more questions...
...stance hurt India's democratic credentials? India's former Defense Minister George Fernandez, a longtime supporter of Burmese democracy activists, thinks so, calling such quiet diplomacy "disgusting." "This government is not concerned with what is happening in its own neighborhood," he says. In one of the few Indian newspaper opinion pieces to question India's stance Karan Thapar asked in the Hindustan Times last week whether a "Cat got our tongue?" "Indian democracy has shrunk because of its unwillingness to speak out," he wrote...