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Americans spend billions of dollars each year on their physical well-being , but there are no comparable efforts to keep people mentally agile and strong.If anything , the study suggests , there is a bigger payoff to mental exercise , because the brief training sessions seemed to confer enormous benefits as many as five years later . " The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the activities were not overt religious exercises and therefore did not raise constitutional concerns.The justices also declined to hear an appeal of a National Labor Relations Board ruling ordering the partnership that prints , distributes and sells advertising for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press to reinstate employees who were fired during an 18-month newspaper strike in the mid-1990s.The workers lost their jobs after the newspapers said they blocked entrances at a distribution facility and the Detroit News building , in violation of court orders , during the strike . In 1999 a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk by a South Korean vessel in South Korean waters following a gun battle , and another deadly naval confrontation following a North Korean incursion in 2002 . U.S. immigration laws , such as caps on H-1B visas for skilled workers , are making it harder for foreigners to move to the country , the report said . After the war the boundary was stabilized along a line running from the Han estuary generally northeast across the 38th parallel to a point south of Kosong ( Kuum-ni ) , with a no-man 's land or demilitarized zone , 1.24 mi ( 2 km ) wide and occupying a total of 487 sq mi ( 1,261 sq km ) , on either side of the boundary . George Mason University students will be working with Aptima Inc. , a company that studies the interaction between technology and human behavior , on ways to improve military training.Aptima , a Massachusetts company with an office in the District , was awarded eight grants from the Department of Defense . This year 's Igs were presented by five actual Nobel winners amid showers of paper airplanes tossed by the 1,200 audience members - - another Ig Nobel tradition.A favorite : Princeton University psychologist Daniel M. Oppenheimer . " When the court takes up the federal abortion law , it will be considering a statute that was passed by a large majority in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003 - - and then struck down by every lower federal court that has considered it.The lower courts ruled that the law is incompatible with a 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 that held that a similar state law , from Nebraska , was unconstitutional.In that case , known as Stenberg v. Carhart , the court said the statute could be read to prohibit other procedures and lacked an exception to protect a mother 's health , creating an " undue burden " on the right to abortion first recognized in Roe.The Republican-controlled Congress included an exception to save a mother 's life . " Know of a truly bad idea ? " Dahlia Lithwick , the sharp-eyed legal affairs columnist for the online magazine Slate , called it Roberts 's " whole sweet / funny / smart / humble thing " and wrote that the chief justice " sees that the press can be gamed to disseminate a view of judging and the judiciary , and the clarity and effectiveness of his message is indisputable . The swing vote on the issue seems to belong to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy , the only justice in the 5 to 4 majority both to uphold Kansas 's death penalty and the Roper decision abolishing capital punishment for juveniles . But they provide no paper backup , a safety feature that critics say would help guard against fraud and bolster voter confidence.Crist told a group of newspaper editors he would ask the state legislature for $ 20 million to switch to machines with a paper backup.Ensuring the integrity of elections is the cornerstone of any democracy , he said . He went a bit overboard in the humility department : Yes , the rest of the justices call one another by their first names , but they call him " chief . It overturned a $ 4 million punitive-damage award to an Alabama man who had sued a BMW dealer for selling him a repainted car instead of a new one.For the first time , the court declared that the constitutional right to due process of law meant that companies may not be subject to disproportionate punitive damages.In 2003 , the court broadly defined what qualifies as an excessive award , suggesting that punitive damages should normally be no more than nine times as large as compensatory damages . President Bush implored lawmakers and the nation last night to give him one more chance to win the war in Iraq and avoid the " nightmare scenario " of defeat while presenting a domestic agenda intended to find common cause with the new Democratic Congress on issues such as energy and immigration.Politically wounded but rhetorically unbowed , Bush gave no ground on his decision to dispatch 21,500 more troops to Iraq despite a bipartisan cascade of criticism . Even a caseload in the 80s would have been considered extraordinarily skimpy 20 years ago . That would be as if someone went to the gym Monday through Friday for the first two weeks of the new year , did no exercise for five years , and still saw significant physical benefits in 2012.The researchers divided the volunteers into four groups , including a control group that received no training . Several Web sites , notably ArabRap.net , serve as nerve centers for Arabic rap and help spread the music under the radar of government censors.Still , many nonsecular Arabs view rap as another intrusion of Western culture and " an affront to [ Arab ] heritage or an imitation of the West , " Kahf wrote.Arabic rappers respond to the challenge by using traditional instruments behind familiar rap beats . " We had one gamecock with his windpipe exposed , another with a bone sticking out of his wing and another with a chest wound so bad that you could see his organs moving inside his chest cavity , " said Goodwin , who went with officers from the Mecklenburg County sheriff 's department in last weekend 's raid.Cockfighting has been banned in 48 states , including Virginia , not only for its brutality but also because of the prevalence of gambling , often with tens of thousands of dollars at stake . " I have no doubt if the Supreme Court overturns Roe that Virginia would be one of the states that makes it illegal to have an abortion , " said Ann O'Hanlon , executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia.Many Supreme Court observers have said the court is one or two votes from reversing the 1973 decision that established a woman 's right to an abortion.Abortion has been a tumultuous political issue in Virginia , where polls show that about 40 percent of the electorate identify themselves as born-again Christians . " This court has repeatedly held that , under the Sixth Amendment , any fact that exposes a defendant to a greater potential sentence must be found by the jury , not a judge , and established beyond a reasonable doubt , not merely by a preponderance of the evidence , " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority.It was a majority that gives credence to the justices ' often-made complaint about attempts to peg them as either liberal or conservative.The prevailing side in Cunningham v. California consisted of Ginsburg , Clarence Thomas , Antonin Scalia , John Paul Stevens and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.