Samuel Walker, a criminal-justice professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska who testified for the plaintiffs, said in a later interview with The Wall Street Journal that the sheer size and influence of the NYPD means that Judge Scheindlin's rulings would have national importance.

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In his first remarks to the international media following the election, Mr. Najib told The Wall Street Journal in an interview on Tuesday that expanding the size and scope of the country's economy would help draw support back to the National Front, which has run the country uninterrupted since independence from Britain in 1957.

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next iPhone will be similar in size and shape to iPhone 5.

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Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.

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But thanks to new research published in the journal Human Reproduction, guys with fertility on their minds can add sperm size to their docket of worries.

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Investors have gained 2.5 percentage point more per year investing in sin stocks, like Harrah's Entertainment and Diageo (responsible for spirits ranging from Guinness to Smirnoff), than in companies of comparable size in other sectors, according to Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk, writing in the Journal of Financial Economics.

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The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, which is a joint project of The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, ranked 183 countries based on 10 measures that evaluate such things as openness to trade and investment, government size, fiscal soundness, business and labor regulation, property rights, corruption, monetary stability and financial competition and transparency.

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