The bodily effects of anger are meant to motivate us to take charge and restore the balance of right and wrong. But for this to occur, you have to get angry for the right reason and express your anger appropriately. As the images on our TV screens andmonitorsshow us, this is a fi...
Psychiatrist Peter Fenwick reports cases of sleepwalking murderers going back to the year 1600, when a knight stabbed his friend to death and was found guilty [source: Fenwick]. The earliest mention of someone being acquitted of murder on the grounds of sleepwalking in the United States appears...
The only term I don't think is helpful is the hook, since it combines the inciting incident, which holds a structural place within every story, with the hook, a device used to capture the reader's attention in the first pages of a story. The inciting incident doesnotneed to occur in ...
Almost any felony falls under racketeering; two or more such crimes must take place with a 15-year period for a conviction to occur. The result is extra jail time if multiple crimes are committed in pursuit of the same general scheme — that is, bribing a union representative, murdering ...
Advances in forensics are giving us an unprecedented ability to solve cases—and exposing mistakes in some investigations.
What sort of point mutation would occur in a DNA molecule that would suddenly create billions of new neurons and wire them correctly?* The current theory of evolution does not predict how this could happen. One line of current research is looking at the effect of very small changes in DNA ...
What sort of point mutation would occur in a DNA molecule that would suddenly create billions of new neurons and wire them correctly?* The current theory of evolution does not predict how this could happen. One line of current research is looking at the effect of very small changes in DNA ...
BOSTON (AP) — Several high-profile cases of voters getting incorrect blank absentee ballots in the mail are raising questions about how often such mix-ups occur and whether they could affect this year's presidential election.
What sort of point mutation would occur in a DNA molecule that would suddenly create billions of new neurons and wire them correctly?* The current theory of evolution does not predict how this could happen. One line of current research is looking at the effect of very small changes in DNA ...
because many found the practice more tolerable when done to save the mother's life or in the case of rape or incest. However, while Aristotle once believed abortion could be a family planning tool, many today believe that abortion is the equivalent of murder. On the next page, we'll expl...