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...same time, conservative Judge Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, whom many on the right wanted President Bush to name to the Supreme Court, abruptly resigned yesterday, reportedly in part because of civil liberties issues. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Luttig was shocked back in November when the Bush Justice Department announced that the government would file charges against suspected terrorist Jose Padilla as if he were a regular citizen. Just two months earlier, Luttig had written a seminal opinion saying that the federal government could detain Padilla without a charge, reasoning...
Emanuel and others believe that even if greenhouse heating does not spawn more hurricanes, it may make the ones that do occur more powerful. In an extensive study published this summer in the journal Nature, Emanuel surveyed roughly 4,500 storms brewed in the North Atlantic and western north Pacific since the middle of the 20th century. He found that the average power of the storms increased 50% in those 50 years. It's a change that, he has little doubt, is linked to global warming. A slightly weaker Katrina may have made all the difference to New Orleans, where...
...street culture. Just over 25 years later, it isn't merely still running?it's setting the pace for a whole new generation of divas, scenemakers and designers. The magazine is commemorating its quarter-century with i-Dentity, a touring exhibition that charts its progress from parochial house journal of London's punk movement to a global fashion title featuring such figures as Madonna, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue, and designers including the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In the process, the retrospective also manages to showcase two and a half decades of popular culture...
That's why there's so much interest in a study in the current issue of the journal Sleep. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School set out to test melatonin's effects and found that the supplements can indeed be a potent sleep aid--but only during daylight hours...
Sources: National Geographic (2); Wall Street Journal (2); AP (2); Golf Digest...