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...mystery is over," said James Goold, the lawyer representing the Spanish government, at a Madrid press conference on Thursday. "Odyssey stripped the gravesite of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes." Although Odyssey representatives said they had sought to keep the shipwreck's exact location secret out of concern for the site's security, in January, the court ordered the American company to reveal its findings to Spain. That information, coupled with the government's own investigations, enabled Madrid to assert today that the sunken ship - and the trove of silver treasure it contained - rightfully belong to the Spanish state...
Following a growing trend toward openness in academic scholarship, Harvard’s law faculty voted unanimously last Thursday to approve a policy that would make the school’s research articles free and publicly available. Harard Law School will file all of its faculty members’ publications in an online database, the content of which will be available to members of the public, according to a statement. Members of the faculty will have the choice to opt out and to distribute their articles on their own Web sites, providing they do not profit from the publications...
...Thursday, the Austrian publication News Magazin published comments from the incarcerated Josef Fritzl conveyed by his lawyer. Fritzl declared he was a good father, bringing gifts to his children in what he called "the bunker" and spending time watching videos and having dinner with them. He did say that what he did was wrong and that he "must have been crazy." "With every week that I held my daughter, my situation got crazier," he said through his lawyer. "I repeatedly thought about whether I should let her go or not." But he kept her prisoner through seven pregnancies...
Americans in households making less than $30,000 a year spend nearly 20% of their lives in moderate to severe pain, compared with less than 8% of people in households earning above $100,000, according to a landmark study on how Americans experience in pain. The findings, published Thursday in the British journal the Lancet, also found that participants who hadn't finished high school reported feeling twice the amount of pain as college graduates. "To a significant extent, pain does separate the classes," says Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who authored the study along with Dr. Arthur Stone, a psychiatry...
Small blue cards thanking students and House masters for a year of service remained on the conference table as members left what should have been the last meeting of the year. They will reconvene on next Thursday...