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...year on a diet of just about anything: table scraps, toothpaste, glue, hair--even, in a pinch, her young. Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before a bug that's immune scuttles out from underneath someone's fridge...
...case. I might be 5'4", but that's why I went to police academy; they teach you to work with what you've got and get yourself out of a bad situation. And that's why we carry the tools that we carry--a firearm, pepper spray and a baton. I'd be justified in using my pepper spray before a guy who's 6', 200 pounds and lifts weights everyday, because I need to break up a fight or someone's resisting arrest. So overall I think people are always thinking about things like that in the back...
Within the past month, riot-geared officers wielding clubs and pepper spray forced their way into the student-occupied chancellor's office of the University of Wisconsin, arresting more than 50 protesters as dawn broke over the campus...
...river travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude drug-shipping airstrips hacked out of the vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both...
...more than 50 police officers dressed in full riot gear forcibly ended a four-day sit-in at the University of Wisconsin, using saws to break apart a group of students who chained themselves together with bicycle U-locks around their necks, after earlier dispersing protesters with pepper spray...