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Senate Begins Debate On Sotomayor's Supreme Court Confirmation
The Senate on Tuesday began its floor debate on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the Wall Street Journal reports (Bravin, Wall Street Journal, 8/4). The debate will continue for the rest of the week before a final floor vote is held Thursday or Friday (Oliphant/Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8/5). Twenty-eight Republicans have said they will oppose her nomination. As of Tuesday, six Republicans were undecided (Stern, CQ Today, 8/4). In addition, at least six Republicans plan to vote for Sotomayor"s confirmation, while none of the 60 Democrats in the Senate have come out against her.Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who has announced his opposition, said, "I have expressed the view since this process began that we are at a fork in the road," asking, "Will we continue to adhere to the classical idea of American jurisprudence? Or will we follow results-oriented judging in which judges cease to be committed to equal justice?" He also said that "certain aspects of her record troubled me, ... whether she is deeply committed to the ideal of objectivity and impartiality" (Los Angeles Times, 8/5). Sotomayor opponent Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) expressed concern about Sotomayor"s statement in a speech that "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion" than a white male judge. Inhofe said, "Well, that"s pretty emphatic. There"s no other way you can interpret that," adding, "She thinks a woman with her experience can make a better conclusion than a white male," and "to me, I consider that racist" (CQ Today, 8/4).However, Sotomayor supporter Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said, "Those who struggle to pin the label of judicial activist on Judge Sotomayor are met by her solid record of judging based on the law." He added, "She is a restrained, experienced and thoughtful judge who has shown no biases in her rulings." Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said, "You can"t find a nominee with better experience than Judge Sotomayor. She has seen the law from all sides." Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said, "When Judge Sotomayor takes her seat at the Supreme Court, America will have come of age" (Los Angeles Times, 8/4).
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The UGR Hill House The First Research Laboratory To Study Risk Conducts When Driving Motorcycles

The University of Granada will house the first European research centre on teenagers" mental mechanisms when driving motorcycles and carrying out risk conducts, which could be helpful, in a near future, to modify and avoid them. The Faculty of Psychology will house three state-of-the-art simulators there was already one at the UGR so far- that will be useful to do research into these mechanisms, thanks to an agreement signed with the company Honda Motor Co. (Europe); the University will become one of the most important centres around the world in this subject. The new simulators, equipped with innovative software developed by Honda, will arrive to the University of Granada in a few days. They will be used by the research group supervised by professors Andrés Catena Martínez, José Juan Cañas Delgado, Antonio Maldonado LÃöpez and Antonio Cándido Ortiz, of the Department of Experimental Psychology and Behaviour Physiology, to measure risk conducts in adolescents aged between 18 and 25. The only accident"s rate which does not decrease According to Leandro Luigi Di Stasi, a member of the research group of Cognitive Ergonomics of the UGR, the accidents derived from driving motorcycles "have not decreased in the last years, as has happened with the rest of vehicles", according to the last data provided by the motor club RAAC. In addition, according to the data of the Spanish Traffic Department (DGT) 50% of the accidents with victims take place in urban areas; half of them take place in junctions and most of the victims are men aged between 16 and 25 years old who were driving motorcycles or mopeds, or pedestrians. For this reason, the new research laboratory placed at the UGR "will allow to develop intervention programmes to modify such behaviours", as these simulators "can be used to determine the individual"s emotional state and work on it, connecting the cognitive and emotional systems through the study of their variables". The UGR researchers will use emotional induction techniques in order to modify drivers" mood (this is, "inspiring" them artificially a state of euphoria, sadness or tiredness), and then subjecting him to driving in order to see his reactions. University of Granada - Communications Department


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