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...Florida's Lake County district, crucial school-board decisions about construction projects were held up while a Christian-right majority formulated, then adopted, an "America First" policy instructing teachers to promote American values as "superior to other foreign or historic cultures." The policy struck many people in the predominantly white, Baptist county as offensive. School-board meetings that had once attracted just dozens now drew hundreds of adults, itching to trade insults. As the rancor deepened, voters seeking to defuse the ideological tension formed a committee that screened candidates and raised money. "It was a joint effort by parents, teachers...
...communicative power are part of the fabric of our democratic process. In the case of private campaign finance, we now effectively cede control of elections to the markets' powers that be. Yet the market needs laws in order to operate, and state action is logically prior to and normatively superior to any economic activity...
...Particularly affected is the hypothalamus, a walnut-size structure located near the top of the brainstem that governs sexual development and sexual behavior and regulates temperature and water balance. Many scientists believe that such gender differences as the male facility with math, the female facility with language, girls' slightly superior hearing and skill at interpreting facial expressions are hardwired prenatally through the influence of the sex hormones...
...Cage, located right in Courtroom D in the Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport, functions as a temporary jail cell for men who haven't made bond. The dozen men held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against...
...prospect of cross-examining a pathologist who made dozens of mistakes in the autopsies of the Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Now it looks like they'll have to wait a little longer. Prosecutors unexpectedly announced that they will not callDr. Irwin Golden, saying that Golden's superior, Coroner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, hasgiven jurors a complete analysis of the murder wounds. As defense attorney Robert Shapiro leapt to his feet to declare the defense's intentions to call Golden as a witness once the prosecution completes its case, Judge Lance Ito inquired when that is likely to be. Perhaps...