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Throws his helmet like a four-year-old...
...violent employee acted out of the scope of his responsibilities, has been eroded," observes Karen Kienbaum of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett, a Michigan law firm. When an off-duty store manager chased a child who had urinated on the side of the building and attacked his four-year-old companion, the parents sued the company and won. "The jury said, 'Forget it. The man had a history of violence, and you made him store manager. Then he went nuts...
...relationships can be pushed across the line into outright dysfunction. In some cases the Barrington team observed, one spouse became hypersexual and the other hyposexual, with obviously destabilizing consequences. Adults frequently misdirect their anger toward spouses and children. In one pitiful case, a young mother started abusing her four-year-old daughter, swatting the clutching child with shrieks of "Get away from me!" The woman had lost two other children in a quake in her native Guatemala...
...million years B.P., into a taller, stronger, smarter variety of human. From the neck down, Homo erectus, on average about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows no hint of anything resembling a chin. Braincases got bigger and bigger over the years, but at first an adult H. erectus probably had a brain no larger than that of a modern four-year-old. Anyone...
Where they're going, on Jessica's suggestion, is death -- live. She pays a visit to the state prison's death row and persuades Dennis Casterline (Tim Daly), a convicted murderer and rapist, to permit live TV to witness his execution; in return, his four-year-old daughter will receive a share of revenues from the event. The network sets up the electric chair in an arena dubbed the Megadome, launches a huge publicity campaign and goes about converting this most grisly of affairs into prime-time entertainment. "The doctor wants to know how close you want to be," someone...