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...society to keep these mostly nonviolent, broken old men incarcerated? With the U.S. prison population soaring (to a record 1.8 million last year), Florida and California are being forced to release violent felons early because of court orders to reduce prison overcrowding. Should these people go free while harmless wheelchair-bound geriatrics stay locked up? Statistically, the risk of recidivism drops significantly with age. "To keep some of these folks in prison for the length of time we do is purely punitive and serves no purpose to society," argues William DiMascio, executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society...
...CRACKLE, YUCK! Here's something to chew on this summer: every time your bug zapper vaporizes a fly, it sends off a cone of bacteria-and-virus-laden mist that can be up to 6 ft. wide. Most of the microbes are probably harmless--unless the insect has been feeding on manure. Best advice: mount your zapper far from your food...
...even after a small tumor forms, cutting off its blood supply could render it harmless by preventing it from growing or spreading...
...cold war's three-card monte. Americans would be at one another's throat for a half-century, sorting out which of the lies was the evil one and which was the harmless. Consider Whittaker Chambers, the aggressive apostate from Lie No. 1: Was he a malignant fabricator? Or was the real deceiver Alger Hiss, who went to his death in 1996 still proclaiming No. 2? Or was it the father of McCarthyism--drunken, reckless Tailgunner Joe, No. 3's bully and birdseed artist, who was the true Antichrist...
Loral's exploded satellite--which was going to be used to beam TV programs into Latin America--shows just how thin the line can be between harmless commerce and military assistance. Representative Christopher Cox sternly warned last week that China has been inducing its U.S. business partners to provide it with military-related technology, and momentum is growing in Congress for a crackdown on this kind of seepage. But the tech industry, and some outside observers, say the risks are being overblown--and some of the tighter rules being considered would be ineffective or even counterproductive...