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  More Mergers Increasing Number of Gigantic Law Firms
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  Major law firms are merging to become ever bigger, forming international legal leviathans. One news article referred to the trend as establishing legal “behemoths.” For example, another article in the Wall Street Journal last month noted there were three recent deals that created...

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  Nutella, Sketchers, Rice Krispies and Advertising
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  Chocolate spread as a breakfast food? Getting in shape by sitting on the couch in sneakers? These ideas seem ridiculous to most people but two U.S. companies recently lost big dollars when lawsuits against their false advertising claims were brought by consumers and the Federal Trade...

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  Policing Hate Speech in the Cloud: France Holds Twitter Accountable
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  When I logged in to my American Twitter account this morning to get my daily news, I took inventory of the trending words and hashtags featured in the left column. Post-Super Bowl weekend, three of the ten featured-hits had something to do with football and a few others were tied to current...

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  Transportation Tricks of the Illegal Drug Trade
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  In August of 2011, a U.K. border agency raided a luxury yacht, unearthing approximately 1.2 tons of cocaine in the most clever hiding places. Illegal drugs have established an international industry in the production and smuggling of narcotics, disguised in a number of ways to fight the...

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  Why We are Failing so Miserably and Regularly in Our Criminal Rehabilitation Efforts
  Article by Thomas (Tommy) Gnagey

  A criminal justice system based on punishment has no chance of working. A system based on prevention and rehabilitati...

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  In China, Japan, Taiwan Dispute Over Senkaku Islands, There Can Be No Winner
  Topic by Sebastian Murdock

  The recent and quickly growing dispute between China, Japan and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is a mess of convoluted legalities, with all three nations claiming total ownership of the uninhabited territory. Unless they can resolve their conflict peacefully, none will...

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  How Scam Promoters are Using Fear and the Economy To Target You
  Article by Ike Devji

  Various fears of subjective validity including social, economic and political variables are being capitalized upon by...

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  Palliative Care: Achieving the Goals of Comfort and Dignity
  Article by Michael Gordon

  It is the ethical and professional responsibility of physicians to ensure that they have the knowledge and commitment...

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  Two Faces of the Human Self-Preservation Instinct
  Article by Thomas (Tommy) Gnagey

  There are contrasts to the personal and social ramifications of living a life based on hurting others compared with h...

• Intellectual Property Business Liabilities
  Article by Leon I Edelson
• Policing the Police
  Article by Joel Johnson