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LIGHTNING RODS Well before the famous kite experiment, Franklin had speculated that lightning was electricity. His revolutionary idea was to conduct that electricity safely into the ground to save buildings from fires. The simple metal rod connected to a wire made Franklin famous throughout Europe and the colonies...
...Officers observed a person vandalizing a sign in the Holyoke Arcade and subsequently arrested Thunder Storm Vanbrocklin, 23, on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Officers simultaneously arrested 21-year old Rob Kyker on the same charges. The arrested parties lived at the same address in Cambridge...
...Gore has long been interested in the nexus between politics and media. His 99-page senior thesis in college was titled "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969." Before running for Congress in 1976, Gore worked as a newspaper reporter for the Nashville Tennessean...
...fraud on shareholders is entirely novel," because it refers to the personal conduct of a corporate officer, rather than company-related conduct, says John K. Carroll, a former securities prosecutor and now managing partner at the law firm Clifford Chance in New York City. While unusual, this charge connects the case to something more than a single stock trade. "It's not just about Martha Stewart's personal fortune," says Robert Mintz of McCarter & English in Newark, N.J. "It's about manipulating the marketplace." The fraud charge also increases the potential prison time; the maximum sentence is 10 years, twice...
...Even if the country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...