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Unfortunately, this kind of abuse is not uncommon. This particular event has become infamous because it is on film and the student’s screams of pain are clearly audible. Seventy-four U.S. police departments now use "non-lethal" weapons (NLWs), which include such tools as pepper spray, beanbag bullets and tasers.Their introduction has been welcomed by many who see them as a safer way to diffuse potentially dangerous situations, particularly those that involve people on drugs and the mentally ill. But advocates of NLWs tend to ignore one resulting danger: their users are likely to become more trigger...
...been carried out, and since the weapon’s most extensive testing was conducted by the company that sells them, human rights groups have questioned the label "non-lethal." Yet even if Tasers pose no risk of death for their victims, at the very least they inflict severe pain. The weapon’s image as a soft replacement for the gun, however, means that their use is taken less seriously by the carrier: Instead of seeing a taser as a serious form of physical coercion, police are sometimes liable to view them as a convenient tool that uses...
...important "art of medicine" issue is sensitivity to the individual's right to self-determination. We work hard to respect patient choice. Lots of explaining, rebutting and cleaning up messes. And as the government should, we draw a line. I won't prescribe cyanide for a patient in pain, even if he asks for it, and the government shouldn't permit home nuclear bomb experiments, even for garage-inventors who promise to be careful...
...course we would find it incredibly sinful to take direct compensation from our tours. Instead we encourage our followers to increase their karma by giving alms to the shamans in front of Our Lady of Au Bon Pain and Temple CVS. But we’re no frugal Franciscans: we picked up some tips from a B-school case study we found floating in the reeds by the Charles. Once we pack the tour group back on the Fung Wah, we go around to those same illusion priests and collect tithe times three, a cool 30 pieces of silver...
...heroes [Nov. 13]. Time should also have noted the nameless, uncountable millions of sufferers this world has produced in the past 60 years. Those who endured the struggle just to survive from one day to the next, or fought against incurable diseases, or tried not to succumb to pain or injuries inflicted by fellow humans - they are also heroes. Hans D. Chi Zurich Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Kuti was one of only two Nigerians included in your list (the other was novelist Chinua Achebe), and this distinction was no mean achievement. Fela's superhuman energy, his wild...