Witness credibility is particularly crucial in sexual assault cases, say lawyers, because the alleged victim is likely to take the witness stand. Any information germane to the accuser's credibility can be brought up during cross-examination. This would include statements to other people, interviews with the police, and even who her friends are.

For the two middle net-wealth households GAO profiled with about $350,000 to $375,000 in net wealth, experts recommended purchase of annuities with a portion of savings, drawdown of savings at an annual rate, such as 4 percent of the initial balance, use of lifetime income from the DB plan, if applicable, and delay of Social Security.

Three lists focus on tuition and fees, and three others look at the institution?s ?average net price,? the price paid by fulltime students after grants and scholarships are taken into account. Each list will be broken out into nine different sectors to allow students to compare costs at similar types of institutions.

"I'd like to thank the Academy ..." How I?d love to utter those words, draped in Dior and dripping diamonds, standing before an audience of thousands of Tinseltown's elite, a bank of cameras capturing the moment for millions more. Heck, I?d even be happy to be able to say, "It's an honor just to be nominated ..."

Captain Larkin took charge of the scenario and began relaying to the Combined Air and Space Operations Center the horrific situation of the surrounded coalition forces. "My emotions were a combination of thrill that we did everything right and stress that the soldiers on the ground were still outside the wire."

She claimed government money received by her husband's counseling clinics did not benefit the business, because the funds paid for employee training. It's true the clinics received $24,041 for training, but the business received thousands more in government funds, including money for treating crime victims.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, bills to prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions. Others: A bill to ensure the safe use of cosmetics and a program of research regarding the risks posed by the presence of dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products

I made a trip I?ve long wanted to do, to a special town in the department of Aveyron. King Louis XIV was not the first foodie to pass this way. When the Romans built the Via Domitia, the route passed not so far from Roquefort. The precious cheese would be sent to the coast and by sea down to Rome, where wealthy aristocrats paid high prices for it.

"As a nation roared into an era where horse-powered buggies gave way to the horsepower under the hood of a shiny new automobile, a new form of class distinction was created. Chrome reflected social status"

In painting, the decorative arts, and music, the evolution of the concept of modern individual identity was borne out in a dialogue between surface ornamentation and inner structure and a search for a specifically modern, Viennese sense of self.

The Commissioner of FDA should create a program to routinely and systematically assess medical device recall information, and use this information to proactively identify strategies for mitigating health risks presented by defective or unsafe devices.

Joan Cannon wrote: Empathy isn?t born into everyone, but it should be possible to be trained into those who don?t possess it to begin with. Most people are uncomfortable in the presence of what they see as authority. That?s the way most patients see their doctors. A physician who can be useful to her will know she has sustained an emotional injury before she tells him what it is. Then that doctor will have a real sense of how that must feel, not a merely intellectual knowledge of facts of average months? duration of acute grief.

Picking five servings of fruits and vegetables from the 12 most-contaminated products would result in consuming an average of 14 different pesticides a day. Choosing five servings from the 15 least contaminated fruits and vegetables would result in consuming fewer than two pesticides per day.

In Alabama lawmakers passed an immigration crackdown that goes even further than last year?s lightning-rod measure in Arizona. Republicans required voters to show photo ID in Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin, with dozens of similar measures being debated around the country.

Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Over half of all adult SNS users are now over the age of 35. Some 56% of SNS users now are female.

Santorum claimed a Medicare advisory board created by the new federal health care law will result in a rationing of care for seniors. The law specifically says the board "shall not include any recommendation to ration health care." Romney claimed that "we didn't raise taxes in Massachusetts" to pay for his health care law. In fact, his successor imposed a $1-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes to pay for the new law.

Men who have a more promiscuous orientation were better at guessing if a woman would want to meet them, and women whose personality was very agreeable were better at guessing if a man would meet them.

Each year organized groups of professional shoplifters steal or fraudulently obtain billions of dollars in merchandise to resell in an activity known as organized retail crime (ORC). These stolen goods can also be sold on online marketplaces, a practice known as "e-fencing."

Brooksley Born speaks on a re-broadcast of PBS Frontline program, The Warning, about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multi-trillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008. "What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"

Like all dutiful daughters, I called Dad on Father?s Day. Thanks to the iPhone's 3.0 update that includes the application, Celestial Calls, I was able to reach him with little effort. He wasn?t surprised at my call because ever since he died in 1958, he?s kept his eyes on me.

In 1998, Congress created a pilot program under which up to three states can start collecting tolls on existing interstates to fund improvements on those roads. So far, though, no states have used it. Virginia and Missouri both have federal permission to move ahead with the idea, but neither has the tolls up and running

It means the development of medicines and therapies tailored to patients? unique genetic traits and risks. Individually tailored drugs based on a patient?s genetic makeup are far off, and the cost of developing drugs for genetic subpopulations with largely similar genetic traits for one or more diseases hinders developments in this arena.

Paralysis, strangulation, derangement, a few of the misdeeds of the plant kingdom as chronicled by award-winning author Amy Stewart. Something wicked this way comes with mayhem under glass at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

""There is no doubt that science fiction has split literary experts for decades and remains a source of debate and discussion across the world. What this exhibition shows is that science fiction is a way of asking questions about the world, its future, and our place in it that has roots in a number of literary traditions and cultures."