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...found that five years later, pledgers and non-pledgers don't differ at all in their sexual behavior. That includes oral and anal sex, which previous studies had speculated might be used as substitutes for vaginal intercourse. In this data, that seems not to be upheld. They don't differ in their age of sexual initiation; both groups initiated around 21 years old. That shows that this is quite a conservative group, because that's four years later than the American average. And they don't differ in number of lifetime partners. Each group had about three partners...
...patient privilege" for Guantánamo prisoners because, as the document explains, it "greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records." The same argument is made for the "physician-patient privilege" so that detainee medical records might be used at trial. The U.S. Supreme Court has long upheld both privileges for Americans under most circumstances...
...despite the good news for gays contained in the ruling, the decision is hardly the last word on the issue. The state has vowed to appeal, and the issue is likely to end up before the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld the ban once before in 1995. On the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court has already let stand lower court rulings that upheld Florida's law, the nation's strictest ban on gay adoption. (See a video on the backlash against gay marriage in Florida...
...extremely unorthodox way of choreographing.” In “Appalachian Spring”—the iconic work about the American frontier created by choreographer Martha Graham and composer Aaron Copland—dancers were charged with living up to the standards of performance upheld by the Martha Graham Foundation. As part of their licensing agreements, the Foundation sends someone to set the piece in order, ensuring that Graham’s choreography is properly preserved. “As a piece of Graham’s work, it’s a challenge...
...been operating under this "misappropriation theory" ever since. A key 1997 Supreme Court decision upheld the conviction of a lawyer who bought securities tied to Pillsbury while his law firm was representing a company trying to take over the baking-products outfit. The court found that using such confidential information "constitutes fraud akin to embezzlement - the fraudulent appropriation to one's own use of the money or goods entrusted to one's care by another." (Read TIME's 10 Questions with Mark Cuban...