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☆ A Brewery Worker’s Drunken Driving Defense: His Stomach Made the Alcohol
  + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
One man was charged with drunken driving after crashing his truck and spilling 11,000 salmon onto a highway in Oregon. This week, the man in Belgium was acquitted of a drunken driving offense — he wasn’t a boozer, the court found; his body was essentially making its own beer. It’s the latest turn in the spotlight for the strange disorder, which periodically appears in a flurry of headlines after a particularly odd or egregious case. Most incidents involve accusations of drunken driving, when people who have the disorder, known as A.B.S., get behind the wheel of a car believing they are sober. Reactions to such defenses often range from admiring to dismissive, but medical doctors and science have long backed up that the strange condition does exist.
Persons: boozer Locations: Oregon, Belgium
☆ Families of Manchester Bombing Victims File Lawsuit Against MI5
  + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Johnny Diaz | Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Hundreds of survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack have filed a lawsuit against the British government intelligence agency MI5, their lawyers said. Three lead firms — Hudgell Solicitors, Slater & Gordon and Broudie Jackson Canter — said in a statement on Sunday that they were representing more than 250 victims of the bombing and family members of those killed, and have submitted a group claim to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that hears complaints against Britain’s intelligence services. “As it is an ongoing legal matter, we are unable or provide any further details, or comment further, at this stage,” the group statement said. The lawsuit comes a year after an independent public inquiry found that MI5, the domestic security service, failed to act on two pieces of critical intelligence about the bomber that could have prevented the atrocity.
Persons: —, Slater, Gordon, Broudie Jackson Canter — Organizations: Arena, — Hudgell Solicitors
☆ In Ancient Bones, a Reminder that Northern Ireland’s Ghosts Are Never Far
  + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
They turned up around Halloween, as a roaring storm gripped the wetlands of Northern Ireland and tilled its ground: human bones, sticking up from the tea-colored water in Bellaghy bog, halfway between Derry and Belfast. The skeletal remains were disconcerting enough. “The skin was as pink as ours,” said Detective Inspector Nikki Deehan, with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. We know now that the remains — extraordinarily well preserved — belonged to a teenage boy from the Iron Age, held together for thousands of years by the preservative power of the peat bog. But in the weeks before radiocarbon dating rendered the find an archaeological triumph, investigators wrestled with a more uncomfortable possibility: Was the body an echo of not-so-distant history, one with which the small island has yet to fully reckon?
Persons: ”, Nikki Deehan Organizations: Belfast, Police Service of Northern Locations: Northern Ireland, Derry, Police Service of Northern Ireland
☆ British Court Answers an Eternal Question: How Much Potato Does a Crisp Contain?
  + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Ali Watkins | More About Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
And so in the tedious march of life, we find joy in small things: The rising of the sun. The greasy snap of a well-dressed potato crisp. Life affords no simple pleasures, and even that delectable crunch comes with a weighty debate: How much potato doth a true crisp — chip, to the Americans — contain? This — and several other probing questions of the crisp aficionado — was immortalized by a British tax appeals court last week, which ruled that Walkers Sensations Poppadoms, the fluffy, non-crisp-appearing potato medallions, are, in fact, the same as potato crisps. Among them: Is a Jaffa Cake a cake, or a biscuit?
Persons: Shakespeare, — Locations: Chicago, Wawa, Sheetz
☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger Detained Over Pricey Watch at Munich Airport
  + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Ali Watkins | More About Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
For two and a half hours on Wednesday, German border officers were up against an unlikely foe: the Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie-star-turned-former-California-governor, found himself on the wrong side of customs at Munich International Airport when a routine inspection unearthed a luxury watch that the action star had failed to declare. Mr. Schwarzenegger was reportedly en route to his native Austria from Los Angeles when customs officers at Munich discovered the watch, which the actor told customs officials was to be sold for charity, according to local news reports and a spokesman for the Munich airport’s customs division. A dinner event and auction for Mr. Schwarzenegger’s Climate Initiative charity was scheduled to be held in Austria on Thursday evening.
Persons: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger Organizations: Munich International, Initiative Locations: California, Munich, Austria, Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger’s
☆ In Norway, a Proposed Ban on Foreign Adoptions Rattles All Sides of a Heated Debate
  + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Ali Watkins | More About Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Yet another woman was given up to an orphanage by a vindictive grandmother, trying to break up her son’s marriage. Theirs are but a sliver of stories that have rattled Norway’s — and, potentially, greater Europe’s — robust foreign adoptions industry. On Tuesday, one of Norway’s top policy bodies recommended a halt to all foreign adoptions amid a probe into allegations of stolen children, forged paperwork and illegal, adoption-for-profit schemes. On the same day, Denmark’s sole foreign adoption agency announced it would be winding down its own operations following similar concerns. The recommendation in Norway, sweeping in its scope, took all sides of the adoption debate by surprise.
Persons: — Locations: Norwegian, Norway
☆ New: Reporter Ali Watkins On 2016 Bitcoin Heist
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew: Reporter Ali Watkins On 2016 Bitcoin HeistNew York Times reporter Ali Watkins reflects on what it was like to cover the notorious 2016 Bitcoin heist.
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