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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner becomes unruly, a guard pushes a button on a transmitter to deliver a searing charge straight to the kidneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons Of Torture | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...first stop in the Yard, I learned that the little guard house by Johnston Gate cost $57,000 to design and build. Flashback to a Crimson article on the Congressional Committee on Higher Education (News, Dec. 12): "Harvard's Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs has been working to convince government officials that the high price of a Harvard education is justified by the high costs it faces as a research institution." The second stop in the Yard brought us to the "statue of three lies." I winced when some tourists rubbed the foot...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: More Than Three Lies | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

...very conservative estimate. And sure enough, without my prodding, Ms. Simpson acknowledges the imbalance. She reminds me that I've come after the peak lunch hour, and so those still in the club are mainly retirees, a group which is inevitably going to be dominated by Harvard's old guard...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The New York Club Scene | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

...mysterious set of circumstances, winds up in a seedy Thai jail charged with smuggling heroin. An expatriate American lawyer (Bill Pullman) is her lone advocate. "I get thrown into a soi, this cage in the ground for bad prisoners," says Danes. "And I'm beaten over the head with guard sticks and things." First death, now torture: What's next for the angst-loving Danes? Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Amount, prorated from his annual salary, earned March 18 by Utah Jazz guard John Stockton for playing 26 minutes and scoring 4 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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