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To: Estimated Prophet who wrote (24178)	11/30/2000 2:51:28 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49844

A Study That Halfway Makes Sense Thursday, November 30, 2000 sfgate.com THE GRATEFUL DEAD knew it all along with Norman Span's 1981 tune, itself a borrowing from a calypso song popularized by Harry Belafonte. It begins, "Let us put men and women together to see which one is smarter . . . " We've known since the 1960s that yin reposes on the right side of the brain, yang on the left. Intuition and intellect. Music and logic. Moon and sun. Feel and think. But not until this week, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of America in Chicago, did scientists tackle two folklorish mysteries: Why don't men ask directions? How can women listen to two conversations at the same time? Through brain scans with magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, researchers found that during readings of "The Partner" by John Grisham, blood flow increased in the right and left temporal lobes of women's brains. For men, however, only the left side showed noticeable activity. The half-wit jokes began immediately. Is half a brain, for example, better than none? More to the point is that musical question posed by the Grateful Dead and the band's helpful answer as to the smarter gender: "Some say men, but I say no: Women got the men like a puppet show."

To: Estimated Prophet who wrote (24178)	11/30/2000 3:36:29 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

Supreme Court Removes A Roadblock to Rights sfgate.com Thursday, November 30, 2000 THE DECISION by the U.S. Supreme Court to stop police from erecting random roadblocks in a blind search for narcotics is especially significant in light of disturbing evidence that the federally inspired drug crusade had become an excuse to harass, and in some cases brutally assault, minority drivers. After years of public denials, New Jersey officials released 91,000 pages of internal records -- everything from training manuals to radio logs -- detailing a widespread pattern of racial profiling. According to the documents, for the past decade, at least 8 of every 10 people stopped along the New Jersey Turnpike were either African American or Hispanic, even though together they represent slightly more than 13 percent of the driving population. Lawyers for clients who are suing the state's troopers for discrimination had sought the documents for at least five years. But the issue exploded in 1998 when three unarmed and apparently innocent minority men were stopped and shot by state troopers. In an effort to explain the numbers, New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer faulted the federal Drug Enforcement Administration for issuing directives that encouraged police to stop travelers solely based on skin color. The policy begin in the 1980s, when the federal agency profiled drug smugglers as mostly people of color and enlisted local police in an interdiction effort along major highways. The DEA denies teaching discriminatory policies. At any rate, such instruction fails to justify New Jersey's disregard for fundamental constitutional rights -- the guarantee of privacy and the ban on unreasonable searches -- that the Supreme Court has now reaffirmed. "Without drawing the line at roadblocks . . . the Fourth Amendment would do little to prevent such intrusions from becoming a routine," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote. Indeed, the New Jersey experience raises questions about practices in other states with potential drug corridors, such as California. It's another reason Gov. Gray Davis ought to sign legislation to require law-enforcement agencies to keep records showing the ethnicities of the people they stop -- and why they stopped them.