Tips to criminals: don't assume that the cops don't speak a language and confess your crime in it when they're around. That said, the cop mentioned here could speak 7 languages which is very impressive.
But, of course, the laws being what they are this woman can't legally be identified and won't be prosecuted. It's interesting though that the British government appears to be moving in the direction of protecting the identity of those accused of rape until they're convicted at trial. That might be a way to even things out.
"A federal report released last week found that while many more children and adults are reporting food allergies, no clear agreement exists on what a food allergy is or how to test for one. An article in Pediatrics in November 2009, for example, indicated that doctor visits for food allergies among children tripled from 1993 to 2006. ... What accounts for this increase in reported incidence of allergies: doctors making overly broad diagnoses, unreliable tests or anxious parents? What are some reasons or theories why more people now appear to be affected than in the past?"
"That kick in alertness we get from our first coffee or tea in the morning is in fact just the removal of the fatiguing effects of caffeine withdrawal, which occurred from overnight abstinence"
"Academia has bifurcated into two classes: tenured professors who are decently paid, have lifetime job security, and get to work on whatever strikes their fancy; and adjuncts who are paid at the poverty level and may labor for years in the desperate and often futile hope of landing a tenure track position. ... I have long theorized that at least some of the leftward drift in academia can be explained by the fact that it has one of the most abusive labor markets in the world."
