Word: virginia
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...hard to beat, being the founders of the Ninja Tune label, and makers of one of the best DJ mix albums ever (1996's Journeys By DJ-Coldcut). Still, a delectable moment near the end comes in the English tones of Salina Saliva in "The Tale of Miss Virginia Epitome," the hilarious story of a woman with a regenerating hymen over a groove more laidback than a chaise lounge on pot. What sells this album, however, is the included demo version of VJamm, Coldcut's soon-to-be-released audio/video sequencing program. Coldcut have always been big pioneers of video...
...have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, and anything you say may be used against you. These rights became required reading for police when taking a suspect into custody after the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling. But this week, a federal court in Virginia may have opened the way for the Supreme Court to put an end to a reading of the Miranda warnings. "The lower court ruling could be the start of something dramatic," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. "It could become the vehicle for overturning what many people consider...
...Supreme Court has changed dramatically since the Miranda ruling." He notes that "the high court has been quietly chipping away at defendants' rights for years." Several of today's more conservative Justices, some of whom are known to be hostile to Miranda, may see an appeal of the Virginia ruling as an opportunity to knock out Miranda entirely. For now, the lower court's elimination of its protections applies only to federal cases in five states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland...
...Quonset Point, R.I., shipyard last week, riggers and welders were busy bending steel into the first pieces of a new class of nuclear attack submarines. When launched in 2004, the U.S.S. Virginia will be the first of a fearsome nuclear family, 30 vessels bristling with 38 weapons apiece. Designed to prowl the world's shallow coastal waters, where the Navy believes future conflicts could erupt, Virginia-class subs will whisper above the ocean floor, making only 10% of the noise of today's already library-quiet submarines...
...fleet would still not fall to 25 until 2017. That's not how they see things at the Pentagon, however. Its Defense Science Board recently urged the Navy to begin planning the next-next-generation attack submarine--one that will be better and bigger than the U.S.S. Virginia. America's attack-submarine force is "a unique 'crown jewel' for the United States," said the board. Unmentioned was the fact that the real crown jewels, those of the British monarchy, have been retired to a museum...