Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHOCK THERAPY With all the politicians getting tough on crime, it was only a matter of time before car-theft victims got into the act. Now Air Taser's Auto Taser, a $250 steering-wheel lock, lets vengeful car owners dole out their own brand of punishment against would-be thieves. If break-in artists ignore the Auto Taser's wailing alarm, they're greeted with a 50,000-volt "nonlethal" electric shock. Talk about a sting operation...
...second major suit was a decade earlier and also came with a moral: once is a mistake, twice is a crime...
...editorial points out, the major flaw in the Cops in Shops problem is its gross misallocation of police resources: "Cambridge is far from devoid of violent crime. Officers would better serve the community strolling ill-lit Linden Street late at night rather than playing clerk behind the cash-register at Christy's waiting for an 8-year-old to try to buy beer...
None of which will make it any easier to watch the pleasant, earnestly friendly Tucker become the 145th person killed since Texas resumed the death penalty in 1982. She has said repeatedly in interviews that she is "far removed" from the person who committed the crime. But she is the person almost certain...
...human-cloning research, of which there is none anyway. He then proposed a five-year ban on cloning. This is not enough. Congress should ban human cloning now. Totally. And regarding one particular form, it should be draconian: the deliberate creation of headless humans must be made a crime, indeed a capital crime. If we flinch in the face of this high-tech barbarity, we'll deserve to live in the hell it heralds...