Too exciting not to post about, NASA now believes what they thought might be ice–or salt–is, in fact, ice. NASA’s press release is here.
Whatever the substance is, the lander has found another hard layer at the same depth in a location to the right of this trench (aka “Snow White 1″).
Enjoy the animated gif below, depicting the evaporating substance in a before-after sequence:
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This interview is the first of a planned series of interviews of professionals–lawyers naturally among them–that are avid, earnest, unabashed gamers. I conducted this interview back in September, but a number of issues kept it from appearing on A.O. Without further ado, here’s my interview with a remarkable attorney from Florida who happens to also be a very skilled competitive gamer. Enjoy. Lime
AO: Hot Chief, thanks for doing this interview. Just by way of introducti... Read Full Story
Do you know a student (can be graduate) and want Microsoft Office Ultimate? For all students, Microsoft is offering a really sweat deal: Microsoft Ultimate Office for just $59.95. It normally retails for $679.00. Runs on both XP and Vista, FYI.
Also, Ultimate includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need as shown here.
Details of this great deal are found here. Promotion lasts until April 30th, 2008. Read Full Story
Apparently this spurned husband didn’t take it so well when his wife entered into
a dalliance on a business trip. William L. Managhan of the Managhan & Kortum-Managhan Law Firm, reportedly sent the following email to the entire membership of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association, detailing exactly how best to change your name in Montana:
Managhan & Kortum-Managhan Law Firm will no longer be known as such. The name is returning to Managhan Law Firm as Santana Kortum-Managhan is... Read Full Story
During the first day of testimony, the prosecution called LCpl Humberto Mendoza to the witness stand. LCpl Mendoza testified that he never saw SSgt Wuterich kill any Iraqis inside either of the two home, that 19 November 2005, in the town of Haditha, Iraq. LCpl Mendoza finished his testimony by stating “I think he’s a great Marine, sir,” after questioned about his opinion of SSgt Wuterich.
This began the Government’s presentation of evidence against Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich in his... Read Full Story
The Volokh Conspiracy links to this opinion by Judge Boyce Martin of the Sixth Circuit, where she declares:
Because collateral estoppel precludes future litigation of one specific issue, and because that is what the state effectively asks us to find, we construe their argument as one for collateral estoppel rather than res judicata, despite the substitution of one term for the other in the state’s brief.
Noting in a footnote: “Because Latin is a dead language anyway.”
But wait! Ju... Read Full Story
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of the New York Times, on August 26th, produced an excellent story on China’s industrial success/toxic pollution nexus. The situation is dire, and China’s difficulties overcoming the Victorian England-like pollution troubles in order to host an Olympics palpable to the rest of the world are well known, and have been covered recently in similar excellent coverage in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a brief section of the NYT report:
…it is not clear that China... Read Full Story
AltLaw, the newest and one of the more promising internet legal resources to hit the scene, is now up and running and available for free public advanced searches of case law.
It’s a sort of Google for Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions, and clearly holds promise to democratize the availability of relevant and useful case law in the States. LEXIS and Westlaw, of course, have long monopolized the availability of such information in any searchable or useful for... Read Full Story
On 28AUG07, a court-martial found Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, USA, not guilty of charges that he was responsible for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail. LTCOL Jordan was found guilty of disobeying an order, UCMJ Article 92, not to talk about the investigation. This order was given by his commanding general.
LTCOL Jordan was acquitted of cruelty and maltreatment (subjecting detainees to forced nudity and intimidation by dogs); dereliction of duty by failing to properly train... Read Full Story
