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Three appellate judges in London are now reviewing the Solomonic verdict and could rule as early as this week. The law requires them to protect the child. But which child, and at what cost to the other? At a hearing last week one judge wondered whether Mary could be viewed as a kind of unjust aggressor, sapping Jodie's lifeblood to the point of killing her, thus entitling Jodie to self-defense. That seems farfetched: it's hard to attribute aggression to a newborn or bestow the self-defense right on a third party like a doctor. The judges appeared...
...rule change will provide the women with an added challenge at the end of the season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Region I Championships, which determine who continues on to race at Nationals and takes place after Heps, will be six kilometers instead of five, as in years past...
...relatives have been kidnapped in the last ten years," the woman said to me. She told me of the terror of living in Colombia under the rule of a president that entirely kowtowed to the demands of a much powerful nation--the omnipotent United States. Her reasons for travelling in Peru were simple; she wanted to see the beauty of South America, but could not travel within her own country due to the control of various guerilla factions and paramilitary groups. Though Colombia boasts incredible natural attractions along its northern coast and within the forests of its central highlands...
...bulletin board, can be as inspirational as a Gipper speech. So this year's Olympians will murmur only the mildest bromides. But some of them, in this Grudge Report, will quietly nurse their enmity to find a focus for their few moments in the quadrennial sun. The old Olympic rule applies: Get mad; get even...
...look a little closer at the work of researchers Hod Lipson and Jordan Pollack, you'd see their robot creation isn't ready yet to rule the universe. Even compared with other robots, it's primitive: using only four basic parts--plastic cylinders and ball joints, simple circuitry and small motors, along with rules for friction and gravity--it designed little self-propelled crawlers, like the toddler's insect...