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...started, I used Google's number-finder tool to unearth an available number in my area code that ended in T-I-M-E (8463). Even with that mnemonic, I've been having trouble remembering this universal number I'm supposed to be giving out. Google says it plans to offer number portability at some point, so I could pay $10 to make, say, my cell number my universal number...
...This jury no longer exists. The jury’s function has been degraded over time to that of mere fact-finder. Now, we jurors serve only as subsidiary functionaries, determining whether the letter of the law has been broken. Arguments addressed to the jury’s wisdom and rightful power to check prosecutorial discretion are repressed as nullification. Jury service has become boring, often meaningless, and it is seen as a burden. We need to look back to our founding fathers. They intended the jury to be the bulwark of our liberty. Our modern juries should...
...Hopeful astronomers are looking toward a NASA mission called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, or TPF - a space-based planet-imaging telescope capable of picking out the faint light of small exoplanets that would otherwise be lost in the glare of their own suns (almost all the exoplanets found so far have been detected indirectly). "Obviously," says astronomer Eric Ford, of the University of Florida, "we're anxious for TPF to be launched...
Road Rules. If you're on the road and trying to watch your waistline, check out the newly re-launched Healthy Dining Finder, created with a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Punch in your zip code and your desired price point, and you'll get a customized list of dining options along with dietitian-approved dishes, culled from the menus of 60,000 restaurant locations nationwide - everything from the 420-calorie veggie burger at Burger King to the 430-calorie miso-marinated sea bass at Chaya in Venice, Calif. The site doesn't currently offer information...
...just lip service either. One central theme Kotz is working on for his recommendation reports is creating new fraud-finder incentives, both monetary and other...