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USAGE Both could claim the doctrine as a defense. While Wilkerson might have been able to simply drive off, the 2005 Florida statute removed the "duty to retreat" mandate, establishing the right to stand one's ground. Less clear is whether the Texas law, which went into effect Sept. 1, applies to a neighbor's home. The state senator who wrote Texas' law recently said that it probably does...
...question that remains is, How mind-altering were Van Gogh's cocktails? Skeptics pooh-pooh the so-called absinthe effect as hype perpetuated by artists and people trying to sell newspapers. Yet research shows that thujone has a significant effect on the brain, in part by blocking the neurotransmitter that controls nerve impulses. "It makes the brain zap around really fast," says Jad Adams, who wrote in Hideous Absinthe about the liquor's renown for causing lucid inebriations. "Like when you have a really strong cup of coffee...
...whole new level," he said. Rudd wants Australia to be "the most China-literate and Asia-literate economy" in the West. Colin Mackerras, professor of Asian studies at Griffith University, says that in Beijing, "Rudd's having lived in China and speaking Chinese will have a good symbolic effect...
...passed, the reforms would take effect this spring...
...important perspective to committees dominated by Faculty. Further, it is far preferable to have students sitting on the committee itself than to have a committee of professors seeking out student opinion. Only by having actual student participation can the student perspective have an equal voice at the table, an effect that no amount of outreach by professors can reproduce. Furthermore, outreach by professors is by no means guaranteed—particularly on committees where Faculty members are faceless—and often falls short of even the best intentions. This is why students have, in recent years, slowly gained voices...