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Michael Vick, an NFL quarterback, battled the Bears and the Lions rather than actual bears and lions--a seemingly simple step up in terms of civilization but one for which Vick ought to have been deeply thankful. Along with his "netting" license, he stood to gain $100 million or more. He risked sprains and bruises instead of severed arteries and a crushed skull. His career might be measured in decades rather than hours...
...good points. Perfect consistency may be too much to expect, however, from our veneer of civilization. The Vick case isn't about children or farming; it is about suffering and death as entertainment. A modern gladiator, of all people, ought to know what's wrong with that...
...rescuers had to move very slowly, shoring up the walls and ceilings as best they could - an unconscionable situation, says McAteer. "If we cannot get to miners in a faster, quicker and safer way then we ought not to be engaging in mining where the risks are so great. We should not permit mining at that level of risk." Indeed, it was the long delay in getting to miners that caused 12 deaths in the Sago coal mine disaster in January 2006. In that case, there was no collapse, but rather an explosion in the West Virginia mine. If those...
...very ethnic and religious communities that French politicians so fear. Defenders of the headscarf ban are quick to point to private parochial schools as alternatives for those pupils who are unable to comply for religious reasons. But marginalizing into separate schools the very individuals to whom the Republic ought to reach out the most might not be such a good idea in the long term. As Ali el-Baz, a North African labor leader, was quick to point out in an interview last month, the French-born children of Muslim immigrants don’t want to stay separated from...
...used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger blew up, causing NASA to decide that maybe space flight was a risky enough job that it indeed ought best be left to the professionals...