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...Astor, of the School of Social Work and Education at the University of Michigan, says that "just because a child understands that a gun could cause serious harm and death doesn't mean that society needs to treat the six-year-old in the same way it would a 20-year-old. We understand that children are more vulnerable." He also notes that with more aggressive kids, provocation becomes paramount. The boy who killed Kayla may have felt humiliated--by her, by everything--which became a justification for any act. Astor cautions, though, that culpability is just one piece...
Your report on campaign contributions [BIG MONEY & POLITICS, Feb. 7] mentioned changes in the Superfund law that relieved scrap-material dealers of liability at toxic-waste sites. The intent of Congress in passing Superfund legislation was to clean up contaminated waste sites and to promote, not harm, the recycling industry. Scrap materials are not waste. They are recyclable. But for more than 10 years, it has been necessary for those in the recyclable-scrap business to fight to have them correctly labeled not as waste but as reusable materials. The law you referred to was supported by 69 Senate...
About a half dozen members of Friends of the White Geese held protests along the Charles River near Boston University yesterday to protest landscaping changes they said harm the geese that inhabit the site...
...used his stick to violently hack down Canucks player Donald Brashear at the end of a game in February, Canadian authorities appear to have decided that he stepped over an ill-defined line. "In some sports contexts there is an element of consent to being at risk of physical harm," notes TIME legal analyst Adam Cohen. "So, for example, in boxing, people agree to have others punch them in the face. The question is what are you consenting to in any given situation. In hockey it's not really a game about beating up your opponent. On the other hand...
Dealers of course hope that clients will buy more through them and less at auction. Collectors, says gallery owner Howard Read, prefer "a relationship with someone they know and can trust." Stephen Wirtz of San Francisco's Stephen Wirtz Gallery thinks the harm will be done by a free-floating unease. "Whenever there is some kind of seemingly blatant dishonesty, people will probably want to sell less at auction," he says...