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...moment of truth, the officers are in a unique position to defend themselves, says White; police, as a group, are both more vilified and more admired than the average defendant. And although the jury was carefully screened to eliminate people with strong feelings toward the police, the next phase of testimony could easily elicit subconscious prejudices - and sympathies...
...Chanel and my mom doesn't buy me a dress that I'm going to wear once but everything is like cashmere sweaters from designers like DKNY, but I don't spend that much money. When I buy clothes. I've been through so many phases. When I was in New York there was the Salvation Army phase when I bought so many polo shirts from the 70s. I have like a zillion and a half, none of which you've ever seen me wear. I have shitloads of 70s clothes, not to mention all my bellbottoms that I wear...
...their eyeballs bulging and their mouths agape in terror. "Our son's concentrating in Folk and Myth" read the caption. My parents didn't react in quite the same way, at least not within my earshot. But they were under the impression, perhaps, that this was all "just a phase," and in due time I would change to a more honorable concentration like social studies or biochemistry. "At least try to have your special field in psychology, or something more applicable," my mom tried to reason with me. My father was less diplomatic...
...years, due to a condition known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Some researchers believe that two years ago we began entering the cool portion of a cycle in which the Pacific Ocean waters alternate between warm and cool periods for decades at a stretch. During the cool phase, waters around the Asian edge of the ocean become abnormally warm and the waters off the western U.S. cool off, while the conditions are reversed during the warm phase. According to this theory, we've been in a warm phase for the past two decades. The PDO affects weather conditions across...
...Pfisters] each have active interests in their fields, which they will have time to pursue," Risinger said. "It is exciting that they are moving into a new phase of their life, though they will be sorely missed...