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...hunter-gatherer environment of human evolution, you killed people directly, not by the triple bank shot of pulling a lever that shifted a plate that rerouted a train. So an evolved aversion to the killing of an innocent might be especially sensitive to visions of direct physical assault. Imagining the triple bank shot impacts us less viscerally, causing a weaker aversion that is more easily outweighed by calculation...
...male undergraduate narrowly escaped an attempted robbery this afternoon in Harvard Yard after being struck in the head with the wooden handle of an umbrella. It was the second daytime assault on an undergraduate in the Yard in just three days...
...university this week reinstated in good standing two of the players - Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - after rape charges were dropped. They are still charged with sexual assault and kidnapping. One player - David Evans - has already graduated...
...helping. Since Nevada adopted the nation's first antispam statute in 1997, 37 other states have provided the legal basis for dinging spammers that send misleading e-mails. But in 2003 the feds trumped most of those laws by enacting a statutory mouthful, the Controlling the Assault of Non- Solicited Pornography and Marketing...
...Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki clearly knows little patience is left for him and his government as the situation in Iraq worsens. In a nationwide speech Saturday, Maliki appealed for more time, vowing yet again to curb violence in Baghdad, where he said Iraqi troops would lead a new assault against insurgents and militias, with U.S. help as needed. Hang on just a little longer, Maliki seemed to say. This time we really mean...