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While Dartboard tried to make its list as inclusive as possible, we apologize to anyone we have neglected to maim...
...country's first ordinance making it illegal for any firm to deny delivery to an address in its business service area. "These people feel that all black people are the same," says Kennedy of the taxicabs, restaurants and furniture stores that redline service. "We all kill, we all maim, and therefore we should suffer. But there is crime all over this city." Indeed, when a Domino's deliveryman was murdered in San Francisco in 1994, it happened in a designated safe, or "green," zone...
Some powerful facts support that assertion. Perhaps 110 million mines lurk in 64 nations around the world, and each year they kill or maim about 30,000 people, usually civilians. The heaviest concentrations of mines are in poor countries like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Angola that have survived years or even decades of civil war. Five million new mines are laid each year, and only 100,000 are cleared. A new mine costs $3; uprooting one costs between...
...been accomplished using means like the 1960s demonstrations and protests. Popular opinion can be swayed by example, and acceptance of views can be peacefully promoted by a smart leader. Some of the Unabomber's ideas have merit. Let's educate the people we wish to influence, not kill or maim them. DONALD C. RIFAS Sacramento, California...
TERRORISTS SUCCEED BY REMAINING FACELESS. THEIR very anonymity allows them to move unnoticed among and around the people they plan, for reasons of their own, to maim or murder. But terrorists also occasionally get caught, although often, alas, after they have done their worst. And then the sight of their faces only deepens the mystery of their actions...