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...facile response to my kind of critique is, "Show us a better solution." Such a response assumes that bombing our way toward human rights is a solution. It is not, especially in a powder keg like the Balkans...
...facial wounds came from police batons, Koon testified, "Mr. King fell like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact. Such uneven damage could not come from a flat surface like a parking lot, said Smith, only from something selective, like a baton...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
...hours later, fresh powder covered Plympton Street, and Cambridge and Harvard Police helped crew members keep students off the street...
...grinding noise began the morning after the presidential election, emanating from the sixth floor of the Justice Department as the Conveyor-400 paper shredder started up. The giant machine is reserved for destroying highly sensitive documents -- not just shredding them but turning them into powder. "It made a terrible racket that went on for 2 1/2 days," says Rita Machakos, a paralegal who works nearby. She had never seen so many records destroyed...