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Lawmakers left and right say freedom is exactly what they want to safeguard. "We are having witch hunts," says Hagedorn. A Metro State colleague, ethnic-studies professor Oneida Meranto, came under attack last winter after clashing with Republicans in her class. (She was later reprimanded not for her political views but for breach of privacy when she said that one of the complainants was going to flunk her class...
...deeply disturbed to read that no warnings about an impending tsunami reached the countries in peril. Humankind needs to work together to combat the unforeseen destructive forces of nature and safeguard the lives of millions. The damage and loss of life could have been minimized to a great extent if governments had been quicker to realize what was coming and issued warnings. We have to get past the political boundaries that we have built. Nature will always teach us that. Savi Mull Lucknow, India...
...tsunami devastation. We'll always be a friend to the U.S. Bandula Sri Amarasekara Colombo, Sri Lanka I was deeply disturbed to read that no warnings about an impending tsunami reached the countries in peril. Humankind needs to work together to combat the unforeseen destructive forces of nature and safeguard the lives of millions. The damage and loss of life could have been minimized to a great extent if governments had been quicker to realize what was coming and had issued warnings. We have to get past the political boundaries that we have built. Nature will always teach us that...
...prisoner, reporting that they had used a helmet to protect his head and improvised padded gloves and plastic handcuffs to secure his arms. The medics wanted to know whether using a tether would be appropriate, and Auch recalls that he gave his assent, saying, "The priority is to safeguard the prisoner." A military spokesman told TIME that U.S. military personnel in Iraq do employ tethers--sometimes loosely affixed around a leg or an arm--to restrain some detainees undergoing medical treatment...
...told TIME: "Things are different than 10 years ago, and we should be allowed to make more money. It's a reflection of the economic reforms China has gone through." Now he has been relegated to the Shaanxi province diving team. Meanwhile, fellow Olympic gold-medalist Guo Jingjing helped safeguard her place on the team by publicly apologizing last month for her own commercial ambitions, saying that her selfishness was unacceptable because "I belong to the nation." That, it appears, is the attitude needed to participate in the most modern Olympics ever...