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Wendy J. Murphy, a criminal justice system expert, also spoke about the legal difficulty of determining what constitutes rape, especially when alcohol is in the picture, rebutting arguments that a case in which two people are equally drunk—and thus equally unfit to make decisions—cannot be considered rape...
...prospect of lean times as Britain reins in its budget deficit has pitched army, navy and air force commanders into open turf wars. Lower down the ranks, the endemic overstretch expresses itself in a stark statistic: according to Britain's Ministry of Defence, 1 in 5 troops is unfit for frontline duty, often as a result of injury or psychological damage. Officials from France and the U.K. have discussed burden-sharing, including the possibility of joint nuclear-submarine patrols, and a Feb. 3 Green Paper recommended Britain's cash-strapped military seek "greater cooperation" with the French. That didn...
According to Gawande, one of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for future social interactions...
With this information in hand, they separated out one key group: all third-class passengers age 35 or older who were traveling with no children. The researchers figured that these were the people who faced the greatest likelihood of death because they were old enough, unfit enough and deep enough below the decks to have a hard time making it to a lifeboat. What's more, traveling without children may have made them slightly less motivated to struggle for survival and made other people less likely to let them pass. This demographic slice then became the so-called reference group...
...princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's 67-year-old secretary general and chief election strategist. By running a slate of female neophytes - many of them unknowns and outsiders - Ozawa drew fire from some pundits who accused him of offering up unfit candidates to capitalize on voters' increasing concern over Japan's worsening economic plight and their frustration with an ineffective political establishment. (See pictures of young Japanese women...