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...ROCKFORD FILES SEASON 1 There have been tougher, more polished private eyes on TV than Jim Rockford (James Garner) but none as cool. Rockford was a classic '70s outlaw antihero: a roguish, check-bouncing ex-con (wrongly convicted) who lived in a trailer and was nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying...
...Mack The Knife" for the largest number of chromatic key changes in a Top 40 hit." (Five, if you were wondering: from F# to G to A-flat to A to B-flat to B.) All these felicitous tricks were in the service of songs bursting with drama and pain-stories of mismatched love, the messy ends of affairs, the unbreachable barrier of class...
...study published in last week’s issue of the scientific journal “Cell,” a mutation in a single gene that controls production of the protein stathmin can embolden mice to make them more willing to explore and less likely to fear painful or dangerous stimuli. Vadim Y. Bolshakov—director of McLean Hospital’s Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—said that the study’s findings could serve as a launching point for research in psychiatric medicine...
Realistically, torture consistently fails to yield reliable information from subjects. In a Washington Post article military intelligence expert and interrogator Army Col. Stuart Herrington stated that torture is “not a good way to get information” and when inflicting pain on prisoners, “they’ll just tell you anything to get you to stop.” Captives frequently offer any information to avoid subjection to further inhumane processes; the dangers of working from such unreliable intelligence need not be explained. In the face of inefficiency, inaccuracy, and the danger of torturing...
...United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the “Convention against Torture” ratified by the U.S. in 1994. These agreements recognize torture as, “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession…” This means that any adoption of torture practices would indisputably conflict with both domestic and international legal obligations...