Justice Stevens left Washington for his second home, in South Florida, as he had long planned for the year-end recess that was supposed to be under way.
Judge Filip, whose nomination Congress will vote on when it returns from its year-end recess, drew criticism over his testimony that echoed Mr. Mukasey in refusing to say whether the technique called waterboarding was torture.
With the year-end recess over and the upheaval of the election cases behind them, the justices returned to business as usual, with arguments, orders in several hundred cases, and decisions due to be handed down on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday was to have been the start of a four-week year-end recess, celebrated with the trimming of the court's 22-foot blue spruce Christmas tree scheduled for Wednesday, and a party at which the chief justice traditionally leads his colleagues and court employees in a singalong.
At a time when childhood obesity is an epidemic and adult obesity is becoming the norm, many public schools have dropped physical education classes, ended recess, and continue to offer a cornucopia of junk food in cafeterias and vending machines, all in the name of budget cutting.
After an extraordinary summer during which conspiring has had to be done remotely, the end of recess tomorrow will mark the start of feverish activity at the Palace of Westminster.
With the payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of 2011, the White House is increasingly looking to the lead-up to the year-end holiday recess as the make-or-break moment for the policy's future.
siRNA failed to act as substrate probably because its 5' end is recessed.
However, it failed to remove the phosphate from siRNA in which the 5' end is recessed (Fig. 7C).
Minus strands were extended 1 to 3 nucleotides from the 5'-end and recessed by 1-3 nucleotides from the 3'-end.
Position the replacement glass unit in the sash by placing one end in the recess then gently lowering the entire unit.
