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ABA Article to Help Understand US Laws Regarding Oil Spills
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.abanet.org/.
5/17/2010oil spills and offshore energy developmentby milo c. mason the recent oil spill in the gulf is inviting intense scrutiny of oil drilling practices, as congress considers levying hefty damages on british petroleum and president obama temporarily halts new offshore drilling leases.
major oil spills in the past have influenced the direction of ocean energy policy, from sparking opposition to offshore development to spurring extensive environmental laws amending the outer continental shelf lands act of 1953 (ocsla) and enacting the coastal zone management act, all intended to protect the ocean environment.
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Interesting Quote Re: JW Refusal of Blood
by Justitia Themis incitation: bjog: an international journal of obstetrics & gynaecology.
20091001. vol.
116, iss.
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Noted Ethicist's Article: The Use and Misuse of Religion
by Justitia Themis inan excellent article with refreshingly cogent comments posted on the right side of the page.. .
what are the proper limits of religious freedom?
marianne thieme, leader of the party for the animals in the netherlands, offers this answer: religious freedom stops where human or animal suffering begins.. the party for the animals, the only animal-rights party to be represented in a national parliament, has proposed a law requiring that all animals be stunned before slaughter.
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YouTube: An Iraq War Veteran Talks To A College Student
by Justitia Themis ini don't know if this has been previously posted; if it has, i apologize.
a fellow student, who is a west point graduate and who completed three tours in iraq, posted this on his facebook page.. it is at the same time hilarious and profound.
enjoy!.
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Woman Attempts Suicide Rather Than Testify In Child Abuse Case
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.king5.com/news/local/defendants-pro-se-rights-vs-the-accuser-106798139.html.
seattle rather than face the man she says raped her as a child, a woman nearly took her own life thursday as she threatened to jump off the roof of the king county courthouse in seattle.. the accused, salvadore aleman cruz, was acting as his own attorney.
he was set to cross-examine the woman until she ran to the roof of the courthouse.. the case is firing up an old debate within the judicial system.. "it highlights why the rights to represent yourself pro se can be so controversial," said university of washington law professor mary fan.
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My Law Professors Article On Conversion (His Own and His Wife's) To Catholicism
by Justitia Themis inhis reason for converting?
" the catholic church fearlessly preached the truth.
his website: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/~dewolf/writ.htm.
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For All Seattle-Area Peeps :)
by Justitia Themis ina friend of mine, dr. kayaoglu, sent me an invitation to hear him speak, but it is open to all.. so for any who might be interested in islamic/christian relations: .
http://www.acaciafoundation.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17:evening-discussions-series-1-august-6-2009&catid=7:lecture-series&itemid=27.
from a common heritage to a shared future: imaging an abrahamic civilization.
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"Last Lecture" Professor Dies
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/showbiz/books/07/25/obit.pausch/index.html.
(cnn) -- randy pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon on the internet and was turned into a best-selling book, died friday of pancreatic cancer, carnegie mellon university announced on its web site.
randy pausch emphasized the joy of life in his "last lecture," originally given in september 2007. .
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Bush, Cheney and Obama Are Related
by Justitia Themis inhttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/.
washington (cnn) go back far enough, the saying goes, and everyone's related.. but could it be possible that democratic presidential candidate barack obama and vice president dick cheney share a common ancestor?.
cheney's wife lynne says yes.. in an interview on msnbc tuesday afternoon, mrs. cheney said that in the course of researching her husband's genealogy for her new book, "blue skies, no fences," she discovered that the two public figures share an ancestor eight generations ago.. "think about this," mrs. cheney said.
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Author Spends Year Following Every Rule In Bible
by Justitia Themis in.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20910659/site/newsweek/?gt1=10357.