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Case stirs fight on Jews, juries and execution. The New York Times, March 16, 2005 Dean E. Murphy John R. Quatman was a prosecutor for 26 years in Alameda County California and is now a lawyer in Montana. In 1987 Quatman was the prosecutor when Fred Freeman was found guilty of murder and robbery at a bar in Berkeley. Quatman has provided a habeas corpus petition (a petition typically used to appeal state criminal convictions to the federal courts when the petitioner believes his constitutional rights were violated by state procedure) stating that at the 1987 trial the late Judge Stanley Golde, during the jury selection, advised Quatman that no Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber. Quatman claimed that it was standard practice to exclude Jewish jurors in death sentences and this practice extended to African-American women, though this was not a problem for the Freeman trial.
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Earlier this month, a Liberian cargo ship ran aground on a reef near New Zealand, spilling tons of heavy oil and devastating the area's fish, birds and wildlife. Environmentalists estimate that 1,000 sea birds have already been killed by the disaster, and volunteers are working furiously to save those birds still covered in oil. That's where you knitters come in. A New Zealand yarn store, Skeinz, has been asked to help with the penguin relief by knitting small penguin sweaters to help protect the birds and keep them from ingesting oil when they try to preen their feathers. They folks at Skeinz have even posted a penguin sweater pattern on their website and an address where you can send finished sweaters. Dear blank, please blank. Crumbs! Large Hadron Collider suffers snack-related bird mishap.
Yet another bizarre accident has befallen the Large Hadron Collider.
The enormous particle accelerator, buried deep beneath France and Switzerland, overheated when it was invaded by a piece of baguette, apparently dropped by a bird. The Register reports that the bread entered machinery above ground. Honestly, they've spent over £3.5bn on the thing, you'd think CERN could afford a tarpaulin, or perhaps a Wendy house. We're not ones for crude for national stereotyping , but the detail that the bird dropped a bit of baguette suggests this must have occurred on the French side of the LHC. It's unclear whether the bird was actually riding a bike, or indeed wearing onions and a beret. The piece of bread caused the system to overheat to almost 8 Kelvin. If the LHC was a sitcom, it would be written by Graham Linehan and it would be our favourite show.
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