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  2. Special circumstances (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    If a defendant is convicted of first-degree murder and one of 22 listed special circumstances are found to be true, the only possible penalties are life in prison without the possibility of parole or death (25 years to life if the defendant was a juvenile). [2] As of March 2019, the Governor of California placed a moratorium on capital ...

  3. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

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    Ward and Brownlee argue that the universe is fundamentally hostile to complex life and that while microbial life may be common in the universe, complex intelligent life (like the evolution of biological complexity from simple life on Earth) requires an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, and therefore complex life is likely to be extremely rare.

  4. Uglies - Wikipedia

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    The following morning, Special Circumstances arrive at the camp, and Tally tries to escape. She fails and is caught and taken to a rabbit pen in which other caught Smokies are kept, tied up. Eye scans are taken of all the captured Smokies and identify from which city they fled. Tally is then taken to Dr. Cable, who explains how they found the ...

  5. Special circumstances - Wikipedia

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    Special circumstances (criminal law), actions or involvement of an accused deserving a more severe punishment "Special Circumstances", episode of The Law (TV series) "Special Circumstances” a fictional intelligence and espionage agency in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

  6. Three Identical Strangers - Wikipedia

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    The two met that evening, and, finding out both had been adopted, quickly concluded that they were twins. Months later, the publicity surrounding this human-interest story reached David Kellman, whose resemblance and matching adoption circumstances indicated that the three were actually identical triplets.

  7. Lifeboat ethics - Wikipedia

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    In 1974, Hardin published two articles describing his view of "lifeboat ethics" in Psychology Today [2] and BioScience. [3] At the time, based on per-capita gross national product, Hardin asserted that approximately two-thirds of the world's population was "desperately poor" and the remaining one-third was "comparatively rich" before launching his metaphor of each rich country being in a full ...

  8. Kentucky v. King - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky v. King, 563 U.S. 452 (2011), was a decision by the US Supreme Court, which held that warrantless searches conducted in police-created exigent circumstances do not violate the Fourth Amendment as long as the police did not create the exigency by violating or threatening to violate the Fourth Amendment.

  9. Aequanimitas - Wikipedia

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    A second edition was produced in 1906, and a third in 1932. In the essay, Osler advocates two qualities "imperturbability" and "equanimity", which he defined as "coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances". [1] Between 1932 and 1953, Eli Lilly & Company distributed more than 150,000 copies of the third edition to medical graduates.