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...succeeds -- the process might take a year -- the Federal Government could order a costly diversion of water into the river to create currents strong enough to push the young fish along their way to sea. That could also lead to a one-third jump in regional utility rates and trigger another battle like the one over the spotted owl, pitting environmentalists against those concerned about the economy. "Salmon are at the center of the Northwest culture," insists Robert Irvin, an attorney for the National Wildlife Federation. True enough. But so is cheap electricity...
...Antonin Scalia, argued that introducing an involuntary confession at trial was merely a procedural error. He distinguished such "harmless errors" from "structural defects" such as a biased judge or a denial of the defendant's right to an attorney. Unfair practices of that magnitude, he said, would still trigger an automatic reversal on appeal...
...since 1985, denies Fairchild's claims. But 11 black men who were brought in for questioning in Pulaski County at about the same time as Fairchild gave vivid descriptions of methods used by deputies to obtain confessions. Three said they had pistols placed in their mouth. Officers pulled the trigger. The guns were not loaded, but the point was made...
This chronology would also help explain the dawning of life on land, which occurred around the same time. The breakup of a supercontinent such as this one, scientists believe, would trigger massive flooding of the continents and the creation of shallow coastal waters -- exactly the kind of spawning ground from which sea creatures first emerged and adapted to life on the shore...
...There is evidence, and we believe, that response in the brain to stimuli can trigger this," Kirby said, while emphasizing that the exact mechanism behind the fatal attack is not well known...