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...KNOW IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS, BUT I feel much safer on the streets of Los Angeles when there are no cops around. I am not really afraid of criminals or carjackers. However, as soon as I see the red and blue flashing lights in my car's rearview mirror, my hands start to shake, my legs shiver, and cold sweat runs down my neck. And this happens when I'm fully aware that I have committed no crime. I know there are some good, and even a few outstanding, officers out there. However, decent cops are paying a price for their...
...frustration with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease it is supposed to cure...
...Today's grants are another downpayment on the 1994 Crime Bill's promise to put more police on the streets," Kennedy said in a press release. "These officers are a vital component in our national anti-crime strategy and are making commonalties safer across Massachusetts and the nation...
...forces withdraw from Bosnia while the war is on. That's great, but there is a catch. The Clinton Administration has also pledged that if a peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, who is in charge of nato's Southern Command, has two documents, each of which is two inches thick and marked "nato Confidential." One outlines the American plans for the U.N. withdrawal; the other...
...Katherine Triantafillou sponsored two resolutions dealing with violence against women, one focusing on domestic violence and the other on sexual assaults in the community. The resolutions called for "trimming of trees so that street lights are more visible," and "modification of existing building and/or zoning ordinances," to make tenants safer...