| Justice After Injustice |
[30 Sep 2015|09:02am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/09/restorative_justice_for_false_convictions_crime_victims_and_exonerated_convicts.html Early in the morning on Jan. 3, 1984, Janet Burke, a 20-year-old white woman, was opening the day care center where she worked at the East End Church in Richmond, Virginia. After she locked the door behind her and walked back toward her office, a man broke the glass portion of the front door and came inside. “Sometimes,” she said, “it takes everything to fall into place the wrong way for it to work to someone’s advantage.” Normally, for safety reasons, two people opened the center together. But that morning, Burke’s co-worker had her own child care emergency, and Burke was alone.
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| Mantis Shrimp Are Vicious, Powerful, Enduring Fighters |
[30 Sep 2015|08:29pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/09/mantis_shrimp_fights_are_long_brutal_but_not_fatal_video.html You might expect mantis shrimp, with their rounded claws capable of delivering shockwave-producing blows, to fight each other in short and gory bouts of dominance. But researchers in Biology Letters tell a different story: When mantis shrimp of the same sex were placed in a small tank and fought over a simulated nesting site, the winner was the shrimp with more stamina. Meaning, they don’t need to hit each other harder, so much as keep the punches flying. Hammering away with their raptorial appendages, the tiny crustaceans defended themselves by directing their opponent’s blows toward a region of their tale known as the telson.
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| Abbas’ Bold, Empty, Self-Defeating Move |
[30 Sep 2015|10:26pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/palestinian_leader_abbas_tells_u_n_he_won_t_abide_by_oslo_accords_netanyahu.html In the days leading up to his speech Wednesday to the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had promised something big—a “bombshell,” he told reporters. He did not exactly disappoint: Abbas used the speech to announce that the Palestinians would no longer be bound by the Oslo Accords, the historic 1993 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that created the Palestinian Authority. The agreement contained a set of interim arrangements, giving the Palestinians a small measure of autonomy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and was supposed to last five years, at which point a final peace treaty would be signed between Israel and Palestine.
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| The GOP Argument for Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Incoherent |
[30 Sep 2015|11:34pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/09/the_gop_s_argument_for_defunding_planned_parenthood_makes_no_sense.html On Tuesday, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lambasted Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for five hours. From watching the hearing, I learned three things. One, Richards makes more than $500,000 a year. Two, it’s not enough. For taking that kind of abuse, she should be paid more. Three, the GOP’s arguments for defunding Planned Parenthood are incoherent. They cancel each other out. Pick them apart, and you’ll see what the party really thinks: that no organization involved in abortions should get public funds for anything it does. Republicans are mounting a boycott, using your tax money and the threat of a government shutdown, to force medical providers to stop offering abortions.
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| The GOP Argument for Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Incoherent |
[30 Sep 2015|11:34pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/09/the_gop_s_argument_for_defunding_planned_parenthood_makes_no_sense.html On Tuesday, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lambasted Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for five hours. From watching the hearing, I learned three things. One, Richards makes more than $500,000 a year. Two, it’s not enough. For taking that kind of abuse, she should be paid more. Three, the GOP’s arguments for defunding Planned Parenthood are incoherent. They cancel each other out. Pick them apart, and you’ll see what the party really thinks: that no organization involved in abortions should get public funds for anything it does. Republicans are mounting a boycott, using your tax money and the threat of a government shutdown, to force medical providers to stop offering abortions.
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