Monthly Archives: August 2003

US courts have held that it is illegal for the police to set up random drug search roadblocks, exactly because they are random. Law enforcement needs a just cause to search a particular car. Yesterday, however, a Colorado appeals court … Continue reading →

The end of a semester is always a bittersweet occasion. The students are all bitter and the teacher is looking at six sweet weeks of vacation! No, just joking. The Summer semester LLM Legal English program I teach in ended … Continue reading →

Travel Channel announces a new series: The World’s Best. They should know, I guess. Weekly themes include: Top Ten Places of Mystery Top Ten Fun Food Factories Top Ten Parks for Viewing Wildlife World’s Best Roadside Attractions Top Ten Wonders … Continue reading →

Last month we reported that Michael Ballou, who teaches “Introduction to U.S. Government” at Santa Rosa Jr. College, was in hot water with the Secret Service for telling his students to write emails to public officials containing the words “kill … Continue reading →

Possibly inspired by Mike Newman, who last week set a world blind driving speed record (144 mph), equally blind Miles Hilton-Barbe is preparing to become the first sightless person to fly unassisted across the English Channel in a microlight plane. … Continue reading →

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg advised people to stay home, to treat this steamy Friday in August as a "snow day." Thursday’s power failure, combined with a humid Friday morning in August, transformed much of the city into an oasis of … Continue reading →

Missed targets at the toilet in the middle of the night may well be a perennial problem, but a southern California company aims to ease the crisis with the latest in sensory technology. Arkon Resources, a consumer products maker based … Continue reading →

BOSTON — A gorilla who stands 5 feet tall and weighs 280 to 300 pounds got a brief taste of freedom Wednesday at the Franklin Park Zoo.   Little Joe climbed down into the moat that surrounds his exhibit and … Continue reading →

Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and it is unique within our Solar System, being the only satellite that possesses an atmosphere. Its atmosphere is smoggy, composed of a hydrocarbon haze, which determines whether the moon ultimately boils or freezes, produces … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lightning strike caused massive power outages in New York and other cities across the northeastern United States and Canada on Thursday, trapping thousands in crowded subways and forcing millions of evacuated office workers onto the … Continue reading →

NYC Braces for Looting A massive power blackout hit the east coasts of the United States and Canada, plunging over 40 million people into gathering darkness. Air travel has been paralyzed, first on the East Coast then cascading throughout the … Continue reading →