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Colorado (where marijuana sale can constitute a capital offense), Rhode Island, and Oregon, have had similar test cases. A Rhode Island state court is still considering the issue. In the other two states the statutes were upheld...
...much of America is blasting drug laws. The Wellesley News runs a Legalize Marijuana editorial. And Boston attorney Joseph Oteri defends two young men in Suffolk Superior Court in a major test case on the constitutionality of pot laws...
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Designed to test the effects of weightlessness on living organisms, the temperature-controlled Biosatellite was stabilized in orbit to provide less than 1/100,000th of the earth's gravity for its tiny occupants. It also was equipped with a strontium 85 source that irradiated some of the organisms with gamma rays to determine whether the effects of radiation were different under weight less conditions...
Indeed, the odds against any foreign boat ever beating a U.S. America's Cup defender looked so heavy that there was some talk of retiring the 116-year-old Cup, or changing the competition -perhaps to one-design racing, which would test the talents of crews and skippers more than the genius of architects. "That would be ridiculous," insisted Intrepid Architect Olin Stephens. "This business of a country designing and building its own boat has captured the world's imagination...