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Every 19 seconds a car is stolen. Every day about 70 automobiles are carjacked. But it is not statistics that make people tuck the Mace into the glove compartment, or change their route home from work, or discover the virtues of carpooling, or prefer the risk of a ticket to stopping at red lights in a bad part of town. It is the stories, not the statistics, that breed fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell on Wheels | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...Department of Justice) show that law-abiding citizens who resist attack using a firearm have a lower chance of being injured and a greater chance of preventing completion of the crime than those who don't resist at all or those who resist with all other weapons (knives, fists, Mace, umbrellas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Control Editorial Finally Gets it Right | 4/28/1993 | See Source »

...other actors are bland, save for Cynthia Mace as the Mormon's deranged ; wife, but her role starts at a mountaintop of emotional frenzy and leaves her nowhere to go. As a gay man who deserts a dying lover, Joe Mantello projects a nihilism far more intriguing than Stephen Spinella's saintliness as the lover, although Spinella has the almost unplayable task of being visited by angels, ascending to heaven and returning to earth -- alive despite two apparent death scenes -- to bless the multitudes. Kushner has said the play's second half is two drafts away from being done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrating Gay Anger | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

Although the annual training program at Brown University also lasts a week, the 20 guards there receive police training, which includes instruction in handcuffing and the use of Mace, according to Brown Police Sgt. Steven St. Jean...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Training of the Guard | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...Mace will incapacitate the attacker; this product blinds them for 4 seconds. That's not very much time. Personally, I'd rather have a can of mace," Pasquarello said...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Green Foam Rolls Into City | 10/17/1992 | See Source »

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