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USAGE Both could claim the doctrine as a defense. While Wilkerson might have been able to simply drive off, the 2005 Florida statute removed the "duty to retreat" mandate, establishing the right to stand one's ground. Less clear is whether the Texas law, which went into effect Sept. 1, applies to a neighbor's home. The state senator who wrote Texas' law recently said that it probably does...
...therapy. There's good reason for that. SPD is not listed in medical texts or in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM), the bible of psychiatric disorders. Doctors acknowledge sensory issues as a common feature of autism and a frequent feature of ADHD but not as a stand-alone disorder. Lucy Jane Miller, a former protégé of Ayres and head of the STAR Center, is spearheading a campaign to change that. She has organized a national effort to have SPD added to the next edition of the DSM, the fifth, due out in 2012. Earning a spot...
Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch paced in front the witness stand, arms crossed, unruly white and gray hair spread over the shoulders of her charcoal suit. Her voice, clear and insistent, carried to every corner of the small courtroom during her cross examination of Alexander Pring-Wilson...
...rougher. The old Dr Pepper scoreboard is still on the wall, but the largely twentysomething crew at Obama Central has another way of measuring the team's progress. Staffers ring a silver bellhop bell whenever an organizer signs up a new precinct captain who has agreed to stand up and argue the candidate's case before friends and neighbors at one of the 1,784 caucuses that will be held across Iowa on Jan. 3. Since Obama's speech at the Iowa Democratic Party's Nov. 10 Jefferson-Jackson dinner - his most acclaimed performance since the 2004 National Convention address...
Iqbal says that before a formal decision to boycott is made, the Muslim League will consult with Benazir Bhutto and her popular Pakistan People's party. "We must make an attempt to bring Benazir Bhutto in, we must invite her to join for solidarity. We need a unified stand." But so far, that unity seems far from guaranteed. Bhutto's spokesman Farhatullah Babar has indicated that she would participate in the election "under protest," as opposed to a full boycott. If Bhutto goes ahead, Sharif will have no choice but to follow, for fear of being...