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...last obstacle is a consideration of the rights of pirates. Unlike in past centuries, individuals can no longer be captured for piracy, tried on a ship, and then hanged. Now suspected pirates must go on trial first, but where the trial is held becomes an issue when a citizen of one country attacks a ship of another country and is stopped by a naval ship of a third country in the territorial waters of a fourth country. The British Foreign Office has concluded that holding pirates indefinitely can infringe on their human rights and give them a case for asylum...
...since the start of Saddam Hussein's trial have Iraqis been so transfixed by a legal and legislative debate. The to-and-fro over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the U.S. has turned parliamentary politics into prime-time entertainment. In restaurants and caf?s across Baghdad, TV screens normally featuring music videos and Arabic soap operas are instead tuned to Iraqi news channels that seem at times to be devoted exclusively to the SOFA story. It's democracy as reality...
...This was undeniably devastating, but there is a bright side: it makes the really old freshmen seem popular instead of just really creepy. World Wide Web (1991) The arrival of the Internet Age provides relief for blue-balled males (and females?) on Friday nights. Lorena Bobbatt Trial (1993) Remember when that crazy lady castrated her husband? Guys locked themselves in their rooms for weeks. Soulja Boy (2007) This song was the centerpiece of every party for at least six months, but it was only good the first five times. Plus it got a lot of people dancing who probably should...
...join their ranks and get a piece of the lucrative action. The pirates have thrived in a situation of negligible government authority on land, where the Somali state barely exists. And they are further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where to put arrested pirate suspects on trial. Strict rules of engagement also prevent foreign navies from attacking suspected pirate vessels unless they are caught carrying out a raid. That means that patrol boats can rarely interdict the pirate "mother ships" that ply international waters, directing the speedboats to their prey...
Despite the study's negative findings, the trial is important to Alzheimer's research for an altogether different reason - researchers had been doubtful that a large, placebo-controlled trial could be conducted on such a large and elderly population for such a long period of time. In fact, DeKosky had recruited double the number of people who participated in the study - the volunteers, plus a study partner for each volunteer who ensured that participants would be available for follow up testing. "There have not been many prevention trials in Alzheimer's," says Thies. "This study says that...