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Sep 19, 2009	Is a second execution attempt cruel and unusual? QUOTE: The aborted execution [of Romell Broom in Ohio] has renewed concerns about lethal injection, and raises the question of whether a second execution attempt would violate the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 15, 2009	Cracking the Spine of Libel (The wild Side) QUOTE: English libel laws create particular difficulties for science journalists. Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent.	New York Times
Sep 10, 2009	War of technologies in California speeding case: Parents of a teen driver use data from a GPS vehicular tracking device to fight a speeding charge based on radar guns. QUOTE: A California speeding ticket case to be decided in coming weeks puts a new twist on the age-old cops versus drivers battle, pitting police radar against personal GPS tracking devices.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 04, 2009	Expelled student sues over "unreasonable" cell phone search QUOTE: The organization [American Civil Liberties Union] has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Mississippi middle-school honor student, alleging that a 2008 cell phone search and the sixth-grader's subsequent expulsion were not only unnecessary, but also unconstitutional.	Ars Technica
Sep 03, 2009	After Its Madoff Report, Can Victims Sue the SEC? QUOTE: Howard Elisofan, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP and a former SEC enforcement attorney, launched a legal action against the SEC on behalf of a victim, Phyllis Molchatsky, last December.	Time Magazine
Aug 28, 2009	Court tosses "arbitrary" FCC cable market share cap QUOTE: The United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has just thrown out the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) rule limiting each cable provider to no more than 30 percent of the overall video marketplace.	Ars Technica
Aug 27, 2009	Dealing With Being the Health Care ‘Villains’ QUOTE: Humana workers and executives said the [insurance] industry tended to absorb blows that should be directed elsewhere.	New York Times
Aug 24, 2009	Bioethicist Becomes a Lightning Rod for Criticism QUOTE: The debate over [White House health care advisor] Dr. [Ezekiel J. Emanuel] shows how subtle philosophical arguments that have long bedeviled bioethicists are being condensed, oversimplified and distorted in the griddle-hot health care debate.	New York Times
Aug 23, 2009	Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V. Risk QUOTE: Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V....	New York Times
Aug 21, 2009	Detainees Said to Be Shown Photos of C.I.A. Agents QUOTE: he Justice Department is investigating whether three military defense lawyers for detainees at the Guantánamo prison illegally showed their clients photographs of C.I.A. interrogators...	New York Times
Aug 20, 2009	Debate still rages over new N.J. national park QUOTE: The battle over the park [Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in New Jersey], authorized by legislation signed by President Obama this spring, reflects two competing views of how to run national parks...	USA TODAY
Aug 18, 2009	Lutherans to Vote on Sexually Active Gay Clergy (On Faith) QUOTE: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the largest Christian denominations in the country, will decide this week whether to allow gay people in relationships to serve as clergy.	Washington Post
Aug 16, 2009	A bold gambit to reduce demand for child porn: Federal prosecutors and a New York lawyer are persuading courts to order anyone caught with illicit images to pay financial restitution to child victims. QUOTE: Federal prosecutors are embracing an aggressive approach to fight the spread of child pornography on the Internet, urging judges across the country to order full restitution to identified child victims in cases where the defendant possessed the images but played no role in their creation.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 16, 2009	Oil Group's 'Citizen' Rally Memo Stirs Debate: Firms Asked to Recruit Employees, Retirees (Green) QUOTE: A petroleum industry trade group is asking oil companies to recruit employees and retirees to attend rallies attacking climate-change legislation, an approach to grass-roots politics that resembles strategies used recently by some opponents of health-care reform.	Washington Post
Aug 10, 2009	Iranian Officials Call for Arrest of Opposition Leaders QUOTE: Revolutionary Guard generals, top politicians and senior clerics have called for the arrest and punishment of opposition leaders, including defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi...	Washington Post
Aug 06, 2009	Big Insurance, Big Tobacco and You QUOTE: the insurance industry is taking these [consumer fraud, incorrect statistics] and other flim-flams straight from the tobacco industry's playbook.	PR Watch
Jul 31, 2009	Voices From Above Silence a Cable TV Feud QUOTE: The reconciliation — not acknowledged by the parties until now — showcased how a personal and commercial battle between two men [Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly] could create real consequences for their parent corporations.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2009	Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment QUOTE: a property management company in Chicago has filed a lawsuit against a tenant who tweeted an off-the-cuff comment about the company.	Ars Technica
Jul 22, 2009	400 Percent APR—Is That Good? Do people take out payday loans because they're desperate—or because they don't understand the terms? QUOTE: There's been a lot of finger-pointing lately about who is to blame for the untenable financial circumstances of many American families. Among the usual suspects... none is an easier target than payday lenders	Slate
Jul 15, 2009	The Debate Over Publishing Stolen Twitter Documents QUOTE: The incident [hacking of confidential Twitter documents] has raised age-old questions about the ethics of publishing confidential material, questions that have taken new twists in the age of blogs.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2009	Who does the law favor in Jackson children custody case? QUOTE: states increasingly are recognizing a child's primary caregiver as a legitimate challenger to parental rights.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 09, 2009	Plan to restore rare trout sparks protests QUOTE: The [trout restoration] plan calls for the poison rotenone to be used along 11 miles of Silver King Creek, its tributaries and Tamarack Lake Creek.	USA TODAY
Jul 02, 2009	Activists Work to Show Gays Are Not Anti-Religious: A recent poll shows many gay Americans lead robust faith lives QUOTE: A Barna Group survey out last week shows that most gay Americans lead pretty robust faith lives.	US News & World Report
Jun 27, 2009	Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan QUOTE: Ranchers like Mr. [Jay] Platt have been joined by small-scale family farmers and other agrarian advocates to oppose the national animal identification system.... The extra cost of radio tags, scanners and filing reports when animals change premises would be crushing, some smaller producers say.	New York Times
Mar 19, 2009	Is access to clean water a basic human right? QUOTE: A growing movement thinks so [that having access to clean water is a human right], saying it will guarantee that the poor have water. But at a water conference in Turkey, officials voice concern about implementing such a right.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 24, 2008	Debate to delay 'white space' vote heats up QUOTE: Google and Microsoft, support the use of "white spaces," because they believe the spectrum can be used to help deliver new wireless broadband services. After more than four years, and over 30,000 filings by the public, broadcasters now accuse the commission of a rush to judgment on the white spaces.	CNET
Oct 15, 2008	Online Watchdog Sniffs for Media Bias QUOTE: the future of truth-squadding may lie. Any attempt to judge news articles could rely on experts, a broad audience of readers or a set of formulas. SpinSpotter combines all three, but for now the formulas are still being adjusted, the audience is not yet big enough, and it remains to be seen how unbiased or effective the experts are.	New York Times
Aug 12, 2008	Venezuela's Chávez riles critics with new decree: Chávez issued 26 laws last week, many of which resemble items in a constitutional reform package rejected by voters last December. QUOTE: [Hugo Chávez's] government is once again riling critics with recent moves, such as the passage of a slew of new laws that resemble items in the rejected constitutional reform package and the banning of opposition candidates from upcoming mayoral and gubernatorial elections.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 18, 2008	The Next Kind of Integration QUOTE: In June of last year, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, declared the racial-integration efforts of two school districts unconstitutional...By invoking Brown v. Board of Education, the court’s landmark 1954 civil rights ruling, Breyer accused the majority of abandoning a touchstone in the country’s efforts to overcome racial division. “This is a decision that the court and the nation will come to regret,” he concluded.	New York Times
Jul 12, 2008	Decisions Shut Door on Bush Clean-Air Steps QUOTE: In the morning, a federal appeals court struck down the cornerstone of the administration’s strategy to control industrial air pollution by agreeing with arguments by the utility industry that the E.P.A. had exceeded its authority when it established the Clean Air Interstate Rule in 2005. The court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said the rule, which set new requirements for major pollutants, had “fatal flaws.”	New York Times
Jun 12, 2008	Out of Step With Allies, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend (American Exception) QUOTE: In the United States, that debate has been settled. Under the First Amendment, newspapers and magazines can say what they like about minority groups and religions — even false, provocative or hateful things — without legal consequence....Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and India all have laws or have signed international conventions banning hate speech. Israel and France forbid the sale of Nazi items like swastikas and flags. It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in Canada, Germany and France.	New York Times
May 22, 2008	Senators Sharply Question Oil Officials QUOTE: But while momentum is building for several measures, including a bill that would allow the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to be sued in American courts under antitrust laws, there is little sign that any of the proposals would do much, if anything, to lower prices quickly.	New York Times
May 05, 2008	Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment QUOTE: an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights...some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors...	Wall Street Journal, The (WSJ)
Apr 27, 2008	Studies on Chemical In Plastics Questioned: Congress Examines Role Of Industry in Regulation QUOTE: Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by an industry trade group.	Washington Post
Apr 13, 2008	If You Think Your Taxes Are Unjust, Just Think Again QUOTE: Is the U.S. tax code fair? That question is always in the air at this time of year, as Americans grumblingly prepare their tax returns and politicians promise them gentler, or at least more equitable, tax policies in the future. But how do we decide what's "fair"?	Washington Post
Apr 01, 2008	In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace QUOTE: Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be banned under the 1993 Oslo accords and the 2003 “road map” peace plan. While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect efforts to end incitement, Hamas, no party to those agreements, feels no such restraint.	New York Times
Dec 04, 2007	Critical Condition QUOTE: Faint Praise begins. "They have been frustrating people ever since.... For two centuries reviews have been lambasted by critics, often reviewers themselves, who have complained that reviews are profligate in their praise, hostile in their criticism, cravenly noncommittal, biased, inaccurate, illiterate, or dull. Generally, the argument runs, American reviewing has never been worse." Pool cites a well-known essay by Elizabeth Hardwick published in Harper's in 1959 titled "The Decline of Book Reviewing," which read like a requiem then; and yet here we are, almost a half-century later, still crabbing and singing the same old blues.	New Republic, The (TNR)
Nov 27, 2007	Protests Greet Far-Right Speakers at Oxford QUOTE: The protest followed weeks of controversy surrounding the student organizers’ decision to give a platform to David Irving, a historian specializing in Hitler’s Germany who was released late last year after serving 13 months of a three-year prison term imposed in Austria for speeches denying that the Nazis exterminated six millions Jews.	New York Times
Nov 11, 2007	In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice QUOTE: Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal.	New York Times
Oct 23, 2007	GOP Finds Hot Button in Illegal Immigration: Special Election in Massachusetts Could Be Indicative of Democratic Weak Spot QUOTE: The issue has shifted since concerns about illegal immigrants triggered angry calls for border fences and deportation two years ago. Now, voter anger appears to revolve around the belief that illegal immigrants are unfairly consuming government benefits, a fear that stems more from economic uncertainty than culture clashes, Democratic and Republican pollsters say.	Washington Post
Oct 22, 2007	Crass public discourse: Time to push back? The impending return of Don Imus to the airwaves comes as some see a desire for moderation. QUOTE: Now, some experts suggest that the level of the nation's discourse has sunk to a new low, and there's a growing push-back from both the grass roots as well as some in the media – a demand for a more civilized way of conversing publicly. Others aren't so sure a push-back is under way, but say that the more the hard-edged, crass aspects of the media are discussed, the better it will be for the nation – ultimately helping to moderate the tone of public discourse.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 18, 2007	New York State Not Doing Enough to Prevent Wrongful Convictions, Report Says QUOTE: The report sheds a harsh light on what it calls the state’s lackluster record of instituting rules intended to prevent wrongful convictions. For example, it says that although false confessions are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in New York, the state does not require law enforcement agencies to record interrogations, a requirement in nine other states.	New York Times
Oct 17, 2007	Children’s Health Bill Dispute Turns to Income Limits QUOTE: When the House votes Thursday on whether to override the veto, Republicans will insist that the answer is yes. They will express outrage that rich children could get coverage from the government while hundreds of thousands of poor children still go uninsured. Democrats say it is a total distortion for Mr. Bush and his Republican allies to say that the bill allows coverage with family incomes up to $83,000 a year.	New York Times
Sep 08, 2007	The Saturday Profile: Taking On Apartheid, Then a Nation’s Stance on AIDS QUOTE: Ms. Madlala-Routledge’s supporters say she was the lone voice of principle in a Health Ministry sullied by its lackadaisical response to South Africa’s AIDS crisis. When the government finally adopted an aggressive anti-AIDS strategy in December, after years of international criticism, Ms. Madlala-Routledge was among the principal authors.	New York Times
Sep 04, 2007	Abandon Stereotypes, Muslims in America Say QUOTE: Leaders of American Muslim organizations attribute the growing intolerance to three main factors: global terrorist attacks in the name of Islam, disappointing reports from the Iraq war and the agenda of some supporters of Israel who try taint Islam to undermine the Palestinians.	New York Times
Aug 17, 2007	Death Grip: How Political Psychology Explains Bush's Ghastly Success. QUOTE: the mere thought of one's mortality can trigger a range of emotions--from disdain for other races, religions, and nations, to a preference for charismatic over pragmatic leaders, to a heightened attraction to traditional mores....Barring another assault on American soil, the moment of September 11--and the reminder of mortality that it brought--may well have passed. And with it, too, the ascendancy of politicians who exploited the fear of death that lies within us all.	New Republic, The (TNR)
Aug 15, 2007	NASA Revisions Create a Stir in The Blogosphere QUOTE: NASA has slightly revised its record of average annual temperatures in the United States since 2000 -- modifications that researchers say are insignificant but that some conservative commentators and bloggers have seized upon to assert that global warming has been hyped as a problem.	Washington Post
Jul 20, 2007	If We Don't Call Them Names, the Terrorists Win QUOTE: Official rhetoric after terrorist acts has become ethically neutral, merely strategic in tone and content .... Should Ayman al-Zawahri, deputy head of Al Qaeda, be the only "leader" quoted making moral judgments — that Arab regimes are "corrupt" — in a week of terrorist incidents? Why do media parrot this moral irresponsibility...?	Chronicle of Higher Education
Jul 13, 2007	Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert QUOTE: [President Bush's] references to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and his assertions that it is the same group that attacked the United States in 2001, have greatly oversimplified the nature of the insurgency in Iraq and its relationship with the Qaeda leadership.	New York Times
Jun 27, 2007	This Is Your Brain On Politics QUOTE: Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the polls—while appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters’ brains.	Newsweek

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