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...trade is so lucrative that it seems worth killing for. In Washington law-enforcement officials attribute the mayhem to turf wars between rival dope gangs vying for shares of the city's wide-open, de-centralized crack market. The deadly competition in the two cities is made still more lethal by arsenals of sophisticated firearms smuggled from Virginia and other states with permissive gun laws...
...tobacco giants, White makes use of examples of the cigarette industry behaving at its worst. He analyzes advertisments in both magazines and on billboards, reviews medical tracts and relies on legislation and lawsuits against tobacco companies to villify their merchandising techniques of a product he considers to be lethal. White also relies on public surveys, information from the tobacco companies themselves and his own personal experiences as a smoker to make a case that the cigarette manufactures are nothing more than industrial murderers...
WHILE Larry White does present overwhelming evidence that cigarette smoking is lethal and is moreover perpetrated by companies that have concern for profits and no care for their fellow citizens, his book fails to be thoroughly convincing. He presents quotes and official statistics, but White generally neglects to present the reader with his sources...
...outcry earlier this year. Israeli troops are generally barred from using regular ammunition unless their lives are in immediate danger. Israel has tried dispersing protesters by firing rubber bullets, which bruise but rarely penetrate the skin. Aggressive Palestinians were undaunted. The new .556-mm plastic projectiles are supposedly less lethal than full metal jackets, but they are intended to cause injuries serious enough to put demonstrators out of action...
Offensively, Harvard has found two lethal weapons in freshmen Peter Richards and Todd Forman. At the hole-setter position, Captain Eric Bentley and Andy Freed have played well, trying to fill the shoes of graduated Bill Wolffe...