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...radiation.) And 12% of patients had gotten more than twice that amount - 100 mSv or more. "Our focus is to bring awareness to the fact that people are getting large doses of radiation and it's not innocuous," says Timothy Bullard, the study's lead author and chief medical officer at Orlando Regional Medical Center. "We want people to use the technology appropriately...
William Wright-Swadel, the director of Harvard's Office of Career Service (OCS), will leave his post as chief adviser to Harvard's undergraduate job-seekers, taking his decades of advising experience to Duke University this fall, Duke announced earlier this month...
...compared to 33% last term). "What is striking is how many cases were not decided by 5-4 votes," says Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law. "With its new blood the court is still developing new patterns of communication and cooperation." (Until Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito came along, the court had the longest-serving body of the same nine people in Supreme Court history.) Nevertheless, even with fewer nail-biting decisions handed down this term, Justice Kennedy has continued to play a dominant role - swing voter...
America's 17th chief justice assumed the bench with the hopes of uniting a fractured court and issuing opinions with one, unanimous voice. Instead, Roberts got a pileup of concurrences and dissents that often resulted in Kennedy determining the law. In the 24 decisions that came down 5-to-4 last year, Kennedy was the decisive vote in every case, never once dissenting. Of those 24, 19 of them reflected the traditional conservative-liberal split (Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Alito versus John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer) with the conservatives winning...
...Thomas. (Ginsberg joined Scalia and Alito in Kennedy's dissent.) Likewise the Exxon case, where the court cut the company's punitive damages in the Valdez oil spill, had a similar melange in its 6-3 ruling. "In one way there wasn't the unanimity and consensus the chief justice said he wants, but there was something reassuring this term," says Lazarus. "It seemed less political and more like a lot of lawyers disagreeing. The justices are working much better together and deciding things much more narrowly...