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There is no room on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial for the name of Lewis Puller. To be included, one must have died directly from one's wounds in the war. That will not deter Puller's comrades however. "There has never been a suicide placed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," says Scruggs. "But we are going to find a special way to take care of Lew on Memorial...
...well as violating students' privacy, without additional evidence blind searches of card key data can at best produce no specific information to stop troublemakers or deter crime, and a worst will produce misleading information if a card key has been lost or borrowed...
Thankfully Bowdren's uninformed attack did not deter men from participating in Take Back the Night. Men were welcome and present at all events this past week. Men can work for the prevention of violence. Men are also raped and abused...
...TIME/CNN poll this month reports that 37% of Americans see workplace violence as a growing problem. Some 18% have witnessed assaults at work; another 18% worry about becoming victims themselves. Those fears help explain why two-thirds of emergency-room nurses turn their name tags upside down to deter patients from learning their identities, why some supervisors have taken to wearing bulletproof vests, and why the owner of a McDonald's in central St. Louis forbids his 120 employees to wear red or blue, the colors of the local Crips and Bloods gangs...
Perhaps realizing the obligation it has to the city and its people, NATO has engaged in several minor airstrikes in an attempt to deter the Serbs form taking the city. These apparently have failed. Rather than being cowed, the Serbs have stepped up the offensive...