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...abusers. Yet Air Taser has been negotiating to supply thousands of electric-shock riot shields for crowd control to police in Turkey, where torture is "widespread," according to State Department human-rights reports. South Africa's new CMax prison for hardened criminals is considering buying Stun Tech's shock belt over the protests of human-rights groups, which complain that Nelson Mandela's government allows prisoner abuses...
...filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays, and photographing rock formations with names like "Pirate's Skull" under our belt, we proceeded to that locus of unique inter-generational experiences--Leisure World, home to Abby's grandmother and 22,000 other Californians over the age of fifty-five...
...what was Boston's highest grossing sports event ever, challenger Stone Cold Steve Austin stole the WWF belt from last year's champ, Shawn Michaels...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
...British motoring organization insisted Monday that it had no plans to use Princess Diana in a seat belt campaign that critics charged was tasteless and insensitive. Politicians, police and safety organizations had condemned a reported plan by the Royal Automobile Club for a campaign claiming the princess could have survived the Aug. 31 Paris car crash if she had been wearing a rear seat belt. On the other hand, margarine tubs bearing Diana's official logo went on sale Monday -- provoking complaints about commercialism, even though the money will go to charity...