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...have enough trouble walking down Cambridge’s narrow brick sidewalks. I am wildly uncoordinated, often stumbling over errantly laid bricks and occasionally slipping off the curb into oncoming traffic...
Women swoon over keepsake sonograms, but doctors and legislators are trying to curb that enthusiasm...
...INDICATORS Broken Trust The European Commission rejected Microsoft's proposals to curb the power of a monitor charged with policing its compliance with antitrust sanctions imposed one year ago. The firm has until April 11 to respond...
...ante to $500,000, plus would bring cable and satellite under FCC purview, though vaguely. Yet most frightening to media executives are the warnings of Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska and the powerful chairman of the Commerce Committee, that he may push his own legislation to curb cable. "Eighty-five percent of the people watching televisions today are watching through cable, but they think they're watching local TV," he says. "They have to have some protection...
That dream seems to have stalled, with some police departments already beginning to curb orders. The bad news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf...