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...January 1981, Goetz experienced what may have been the watershed event in his life. While traveling home with some electrical equipment, he was jumped by three black youths at the Canal Street subway station. He was smashed into a plate-glass window, and suffered torn cartilage in his knee. His deepest bruises, however, were psychic. Two of the muggers escaped; one was nabbed by an alert policeman. Goetz was outraged that the suspect spent less than three hours at police headquarters while Goetz was there for more than six. Being the victim of such an act, says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred...
Businessman J. Peter Grace first recommended the improved hearing devices to Reagan. The new aids, made by Starkey Labs Inc., the Minneapolis manufacturer of his old aid, are half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says...
...heard these kinds of company assurances before," said Schnapp, citing broken promises of safety made by the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the Babcock and Wilcox nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, and the Hooker Chemical Co. at Love Canal...
...that the motive of legislation like the Sedition Act was to silence the critics of those in power, and trusted that in time truth would conquer error. Occasionally, Government tested the principle anew. When the New York World and Indianapolis News alleged corruption in the development of the Panama Canal in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered his Attorney General to sue. The courts quashed both cases before they could come to trial...
Women who contract chlamydia during a normal pregnancy face yet another serious problem: transmitting the disease to their babies, who are infected while passing through the birth canal. In infants, chlamydia manifests itself in the form of conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the eye, or as pneumonia. There is also some evidence, Holmes says, that chlamydial infection during pregnancy increases the risks of premature and stillborn births...