Word: maim
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Everybody needs to play. Kids especially learn by playing. They pick up counting skills from duck-duck-goose and learn strategy from checkers, card games and sports. So when they play violent video games, are they learning to kill and maim? Many parents began asking this question when they learned that the Columbine killers were avid players of Doom--a game that teaches killing skills so effectively that the U.S. military uses a modified version to train its soldiers...
...football rules, and according to various reports, the Crimson retaliated with frequent punishment in the form of throttling, punching, and what appears to be an early ancestor of clotheslining. Without a hint of Ivy League etiquette, the games were known for their violent grappling and attempts to maim for victory. The play grew so ugly that in early 1885, the Faculty of Harvard College sent a letter ordering intercollegiate competition prohibited, limiting football to Harvard intramural competition until it was "possible to eliminate all objectionable features from the game." Fortunately for the future of intercollegiate football, though, the rough spots...
...Sexual freedom seem like a good thing? "The sexuality that has been freed is male sexuality." Women deserve an equal shot at a career in the military? Fine, but just remember: "In modern warfare, women and children on the ground are in greater danger than the professionals who maim and kill them from a distance." She will probably draw ire for her chapter on female genital mutilation, in which she argues that Western women should be worried instead about their own forms of mutilation, such as episiotomies or cosmetic surgery...
...patients to sue but would also give them the right to appeal to the courts as soon as an HMO denies care that a doctor recommends. Norwood's bottom line: "If you practice medicine with or without a license, you have to be responsible for your actions should you maim, harm or kill...
...television, says she can't tell how it will come off because she found the experience so strange. She said she scarcely remembers what she said. Told that it seemed surprising that she would even consider sitting down with someone who pleaded guilty to covering up the conspiracy to maim her, she said, "I was surprised that I would...