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...appeared before the Supreme Court, several law professors said that they expected her to ease into the new role after spending over five years within what they called one of the most contentious legal environments in the country.“The best oral advocate is someone who can understand what the question is,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued a high-profile Internet copyright case before the Supreme Court in 2002. “It’s not about rhetoric.”Lessig will return to Harvard this summer?...
...found that not all fat is created equal: subcutaneous fat from the lower body, it turns out, is very different from abdominal fat. What the difference is, exactly, has yet to be discovered. That kind of finding would have “enormous implications” for the understanding of obesity and diabetes and for the pharmaceutical industry, said Philip Gorden, the former director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Those who aren’t fortunate enough to be callipygian, however, can’t do much. “It?...
...Coleman's first public appearance here since Election Day - when he asked Franken to refrain from taking the race to a recount but later apologized for the comment - Coleman stood in a room full of supporters in the State Office Building and declared, "While I understand there is a desire by a small number of people to simply move on, something greater than expediency is at stake here ... Sometimes [democracy] is messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the best directive - fairness is." When reporters mentioned the names of Senate majority leader...
...make money until central bankers in the U.S. and other countries began slashing borrowing costs as the credit crunch hit and their economies faltered. The carry trade "is a very strong and powerful movement, and it's difficult to stop it," Sasaki says. "I think that Japanese officials understand that, and that's why they haven't intervened...
...while visitors have embraced the service - nearly 10,000 foreigners rode Karsten's bikes last year - locals remain ambivalent about it. Those in the tourism industry understand that the city makes a lot of money from the legions of tourists who come to Amsterdam to get drunk and stoned. But as opponents point out, most do so in bars or cafés - not on the street. "We look at it with horror," says Ton Boon, a spokesman for the Centrum Borough, the quaint, canal-lined district in the heart of the city. "It brings in one kind of tourist...