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...were introduced ten years ago, however, and recent events have shown why. Five New York City police officers last week were indicted on charges growing out of use of these devices to torture four men arrested on minor drug charges. Mark Davidson, 18, unveiled in court a back and abdomen laced with dozens of "fried flesh" marks, as his lawyer put it. The allegations so outraged Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward that he forced the retirement or transfer of some 20 supervising officers, including the department's third highest official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zap! Stun guns: hot but getting heat | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...underwear in the morning. But barely two years after they were married, she testified, her husband struck her on the side of the head, rupturing an eardrum. Mrs. Fedders recounted that when she was pregnant with her first son, Fedders attacked her with his fists, pummeling her in the abdomen. Said she: "I remember he was yelling he didn't care if he killed me or killed the baby." Another time, she recalled, he grabbed her by the hair and tried to heave her over a 5-ft.-high banister in their home, causing an injury to her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubled Double Life | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...were no more than seven feet away as she greeted them. Beant Singh drew a .38 revolver and fired three shots into her abdomen. As she fell to the ground, Satwant Singh pumped all 30 rounds from his Sten automatic weapon into her crumpled body. At least seven bullets penetrated her abdomen, three her chest and one her heart. The Prime Minister was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indira Gandhi: Death in the Garden | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...finding stemmied from a careful watching of the genetic development of various insect parts, such us the thorax or abdomen. Alteration of some genes causes legs or thorax segments to develop where the abdomen should be, for exmaple...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Scientists Spot Common Vertebrate/Insect Gene | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...That case was a travesty of justice," he added. Although he said doctors had to "flip [this patient] through the abdomen to repair the damges," he added that "the surgeons didn't do anything wrong. In any other hospital, she would have been dead...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Harvard Insurance Firm To Up Malpractice Fees | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

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