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Students who were pepper-sprayed while sitting peacefully during a University of California, Davis protest last fall sued school officials Wednesday, claiming that campus police officers weren't trained on how to handle demonstrations properly.
The ink wasn't even dry on a settlement with the nation's top mortgage lenders when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon laid claim to a chunk of the money.
In the field of climate science, when someone - especially skeptics - did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul. He chaired a prominent scientific society's ethics committee. He created an award for what he considered lies about global warming.
