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...Then her husband threw sulfuric acid on her face, chest and thighs. She let out a long cry. The women held her down, spreading acid over her face and breasts, disfiguring her horribly for the rest of her life. Twelve years later, she still seeks words for the pain: "It was like being thrown into the sky and hurled around...
Worse than the memory of the pain is the wall of silence that immediately fell around the village chiefs implicated in the attack, which arose from the village's refusal to allow Wu Fang to divorce her husband. Powerful and corrupt, these officials from Fenghuo village in northwestern Shaanxi province have consistently blocked all attempts by Wu Fang to bring them to justice. When a Chinese newspaper wrote a story sympathetic to her case in 1996, the village sued for libel--and won last June in a local court. "Everywhere in China there are outside factors that interfere with legal...
...large, though, the law is messy and outdated. In Texas a 1985 statute allows wrongly imprisoned people to collect as much as $25,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. That works out to slightly less than $6 a day for the 12 years Kevin Byrd spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The state agreed to pay it in May 1999, but Byrd has yet to see any money. In Texas, officials in the Attorney General's office say the state legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still...
Currently recruiting A government pain-measurement study will pay $100 every time participants let a machine squeeze their thumbnail until they cry "Uncle...
...early and tragic death of a hero, a leader or a cultural icon always produces reactions of greater intensity than the sad passing on of a revered figure at a grand old age. The loss is not the pang of regret. It's the burning pain of what might have been...