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...England hooligans still cause mayhem outside stadiums, but the Premier league has managed to contain the violence inside by retrofitting stadiums American style, with assigned seats instead of terraces for standing, and by offering more season-ticket plans. Yet the learning curve has been tragic. A brutal 1985 melee in Brussels, in which Liverpool fans charged at supporters of Italy's Juventus, left 39 people dead in the panic. Nearly 100 fans died in a crowd-control disaster in Sheffield...
...online message boards, politicians and parents' groups condemn the No. 1--selling video game for glorifying street culture. Players can hire prostitutes, and although no sex occurs onscreen, the controller shakes to simulate an orgasm. SHELLSHOCK: NAM '67 A cross between Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now, this brutal game from the makers of Tomb Raider lets characters take drugs and watch a comrade chop up a hooker...
...runaway smash alone would not solve the woes of the toy business. Toy stores see little Christmas cheer in tackling the big-box discounters Target and Wal-Mart, and many are shutting down. Since last season's brutal price war--led by Wal-Mart--KB Toys and FAO Schwarz have closed roughly 600 stores between them. Toys are increasingly merchandised as impulse items at drugstores, supermarkets and even coffee shops. Starbucks has sold loads of the Cranium board game. KB, operating under bankruptcy protection, says it will close 164 of its remaining 820 stores in January. FAO now consists...
...black communities. Mexican Americans have a hypertension incidence 5.5% higher than that of whites, and African Americans a whopping 43% higher. Epidemiologists have advanced any number of explanations for the hypertension problem in the black population. One of the most intriguing--if least provable--has been that the brutal conditions aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic served as a sort of adaptive choke point, selecting for people with a tendency to retain salt and water. This allowed them to survive the murderous journey without succumbing to thirst but predisposed their descendants to hypertension. Dr. Lawrence Appel of the Johns Hopkins...
...interventions fail, brutal Darwinian realism may have to replace cushy Marxian idealism in the fight for normal human relations. A pod-head’s brain can only handle so much stimulation before it becomes fried and requires a long-term break. Until this happens, numbers will dwindle as pod-heads cannot use their sense of hearing to warn against the unexpected car or bus. They’d better watch out when crossing Mass...