Stuff We Missed

Chloe Angyal has a great new piece up on Splice about anti-sex billboards in Baltimore.

A MIT study finds another compelling reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines girls’ performance in math class.

The New York Times calculates how much it costs to be gay.

Next semester, Princeton will offer a class on fashion model memoirs.  Are we skeptical?  Perhaps.

Scott Roeder, the man who killed Dr. George Tiller last May, may use the “necessity defense” in his trial.  Could it work?

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  1. Thúy-Lan

    according to AP, one of roeder’s attorneys says that they’re not going to use the “necessity defense” and that it doesn’t even exist in state law.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jaLZyHUZ2vWSrE1Go3eZ1qUW47GgD9BT2G300

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