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Koreans , as well as people in several other Asian countries , have believed since antiquity that each person is destined to possess certain characteristics depending on where his or her birth year falls in the 12-year astrological cycle.These beliefs are still so deeply held that couples delay having children in a horse year , induce abortions if they believe their baby will be a girl or deliberately misreport their daughter 's birth year , the researchers found . " The court has recognized for a century that in that area , when national banks have powers , including incidental powers recognized by the comptroller , they generally preempt any state law , " said Robert A. Long Jr ., who represents Wachovia , but whose case is supported by the entire banking industry.Roberts said it seemed that banks wanted to be viewed as federally governed on regulation issues but state-based to shelter themselves from liability issues . We enter the year 2007 with large endeavors underway , and others that are ours to begin . " 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. But they confirmed that prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo intended to present his first cases to judges in February.Sudan is not a party to the statute that governs the International Criminal Court , and the court could only intervene if the government was refusing to investigate , al-Mardi said . Among the scientists she faults for writing soft porn : Francis Bacon , who wrote in his 1623 work " Of the Dignity and Advancement of Learning " that " neither ought a man to make scruple of entering and penetrating into those holes and corners [ of nature ] when the inquisition of truth is his whole object . A lawyer for MedImmune Inc. asked the Supreme Court yesterday to let the company sue to overturn a patent owned by Genentech Inc. on a component of MedImmune 's blockbuster drug Synagis , even though MedImmune is paying royalties to use it.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , which has jurisdiction over patent law , blocked MedImmune from suing in 2004 , ruling that a 1998 deal that MedImmune agreed to with Genentech amounted to a recognition of its patent 's validity , leaving no genuine conflict for the courts to resolve . " These are large cockfighting rings with bleacher seating , concession stands , the works . " Taplin has two large cameras that dangle from his neck on cords and make him look like part of the paparazzi . Rather , as is the case with physical exercise , strengthening the mind appeared to slow decline.Sherry L. Willis , the lead author of the study and a Pennsylvania State University professor of human development , said those who had the training also reported greater confidence in their ability to solve everyday problems , and this was especially true of the group that got the reasoning training . 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 . ) Justices have long given speeches to law classes and legal conferences and at overseas symposiums , sometimes noticed and sometimes not.But those who follow the court closely say they have no doubt there has been a change . In that way , they also are most like the cases the Supreme Court hears , said Donald R. Songer , a political scientist at the University of South Carolina who studies appellate courts.The idea of trying to gauge a judge 's ideology from his voting patterns on different types of cases is unpopular among law professors who prefer to study legal reasoning case by case . Supreme Court deliberations are private , but yesterday 's oral arguments on whether it is constitutional to allow school systems to use race in making school assignments became as much a public debate between the divided justices as a questioning of lawyers.And after two hours , it seemed to reflect a court majority highly skeptical of the proposition that the benefits of racially diverse public schools can justify any restriction on an individual 's constitutional right to equal protection . " Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke to his fellow members of the Federalist Society , a coalition of conservative lawyers and legal scholars who have gone from rebel outsiders to Washington insiders - - the group drew 1,500 people to its annual banquet and warranted appearances by administration leaders from Vice President Cheney on down.Roberts 's turn on the stage was the most complete , and it showed that his sure-footed performance in his confirmation hearings , where he left even senators opposed to his conservative philosophy aglow , was no fluke.He has a politician 's gift for appearing open while answering only the questions he wants to answer , along with an almost over-the-top humility about being , at 51 , the youngest chief justice since John Marshall , and he offers a reassuring middle ground between those worried about threats to judicial independence and those alarmed by activist judges.He provided a little something for everyone . " Michigan and the states want to be able to help their citizens with abusive and predatory lending complaints , " he said.A lawyer for the banking industry countered that courts have long acknowledged the primacy of federal regulators over local authorities when evaluating large banks and that this instance was no different . Each of us is guided by our own convictions , and to these we must stay faithful . The average student scored 500 on this test.The researchers found that a child from a family having 500 books at home scored , on average , 112 points higher on the achievement test than one from an otherwise identical family having only one book - - and that 's after they factored in parents ' education , occupation , income and other things typically associated with a child 's academic performance . Compared with the control group , those who got memory training did 75 percent better on memory tasks five years later , those who got the reasoning training did 40 percent better on reasoning tasks , and those who got the speed training did 300 percent better than the control group.Researchers noted that mental skills can sometimes compensate for physical disabilities : Knowing how to figure out directions and find a new route on a map , for example , could allow someone to retain mobility even after their night vision deteriorates to the point where driving on certain roads becomes difficult.The study tracked 2,802 healthy adults from diverse backgrounds who were , on average , 73 years old . 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 . " I ca n't say that I have a lot of very close , personal relationships with people , " Skilling told the jury.During eight sometimes captivating days as his own chief witness , Skilling described for the jury his psychological odyssey , which left him " going to pieces , " unable to get out of bed and plagued with alcohol problems as Enron hurtled toward bankruptcy protection in December 2001.At one point , Skilling testified , he was so overcome with emotion and drink that his fiancee could not roust him out of a Fort Lauderdale , Fla ., hotel room to meet friends and attend a boat show . The project contains a random sample of about 30 cases for each circuit for every year from 1925 to 1996 .