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Other researchers have found that left-handers are overrepresented on university faculties , as well as among gifted students , artists and musicians.The Missing Baby Girls in the Year of the HorseOld superstitions die hard - - and in South Korea , beliefs in astrology remain so strong in that fertility rates plummeted and thousands of abortions were performed in 2002 because parents did n't want to give birth to a daughter in the dreaded Year of the Horse.To South Koreans , the Year of the Horse is viewed as a particularly bad time to have a girl , Jungmin Lee and Myungho Paik report in the latest issue of Demography . The court , which last year rejected a challenge to a similar Alabama law , denied the appeal without any comment.The justices rejected an appeal brought by Jonas and Tiffany Eklund , who contended that the Byron Union School District , east of San Francisco , violated constitutional guarantees separating church and state when it required students in a world history class to read pages from the opening chapter of the Koran and study Islam 's Five Pillars of Faith in a unit on Muslim culture . One out of every nine people in New York City and one out of every 19 people in the country are employed by the financial services sector , the report said.The 145-page , $ 600,000 report emphasized immigration policy as a potential threat to New York City 's high-quality workforce . that we're going to be in a kind of bog of mixtures of constitutional law , unclear Oregon state law , not certain exactly what was meant by whom in the context of the trial , et cetera , " said Justice Stephen G. Breyer , who voted in favor of the court 's previous decisions limiting punitive damages.Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who dissented from those decisions , made similar points , as did Justice David H. Souter.Compensatory damages are usually awarded to compensate for economic losses or pain and suffering . A second group was trained in reasoning skills - - being asked to spot the pattern in the sequence " a , c , e , g , i , " for example - - every other letter of the alphabet . That is a real advantage , " said Manassas City Council member Andrew L. Harrover ( R ) . It 's just going to be boilerplate in every license agreement , and that 's the end of it . " On every study except one , business students come out on top , " he said . The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , nevertheless , reaffirmed the death sentence , saying that if an error was made , it was harmless to the outcome of the jury 's decision.And so Smith v. Texas ( 05-11304 ) was back before the Supreme Court yesterday , with Smith 's advocates and others - - including four retired federal appeals court judges - - arguing that the state court ignored specific directions from the Supreme Court.As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it , it was as though the state court were saying , " Thanks , thanks , that 's very interesting advice , " but we're deciding it on different grounds.But the state appeared to have strong supporters in Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia.Scalia said the Texas court decided that , though the mitigating evidence should have been presented more straightforwardly , it was in the best position to decide that such evidence would not have affected the jury 's decision to sentence Smith to death . The penalty for cockfighting is lighter in Virginia than in almost any other state . " That seemed not to convince Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. " 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 . " 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. He would like to see the court spend time on other sentencing disparities " that affect thousands of people every day . " She noted that some states have responded to the court 's rulings by amending their determinate sentencing laws to involve the jury in finding any facts that could elevate the sentence . " 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 . " That 's the big issue . Bush appointed her White House counsel when Alberto Gonzales became attorney general.Yet those eager for a nominee with conservative judicial decision-making experience joined other critics who noted that Miers had never been a judge and lacked credentials in constitutional law . Yet we're all held to the same standards , and called to serve the same good purposes : To extend this nation 's prosperity ; to spend the people 's money wisely ; to solve problems , not leave them to future generations ; to guard America against all evil ; and to keep faith with those we have sent forth to defend us . Among New York 's ethnically diverse Muslim immigrants , Yildirim earned special regard for his willingness to accommodate the funeral rituals of any nationality and smooth a body 's way home with officials of any airline or embassy.Yildirim began volunteering at the 66th Precinct in 2000 . But there has also been a change in the way justices , now led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr ., 51 , see their role both in explaining what they do and in fostering a public conversation about the judiciary , according to those who most carefully monitor the court . 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 .