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...serious harm is mitigated. Another issue is simple miscommunication - police officers may use Tasers on those suffering from medical or mental conditions when no danger is actually being presented to the officer. The reports weaves a web of unnecessary deaths. There appears to be no definitive way to tell if Tasers caused them all, but the sheer number says something. Little appears to have changed, though. Expect another report - and more reported fatalities - next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Tasers Deadly? | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...been fortunate to go to some of the top schools in America...but I can tell you, without a doubt, that some of the best lessons I've learned in life are from playing basketball on Chicago's inner-city playgrounds. There's nothing like it." - on what the 6-foot-5-inch Duncan has learned playing basketball at venues all around his hometown, Chicago Tribune, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Secretary: Arne Duncan | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...love Ben and that’s all that matters,” said current UC Representative Alyssa M. Aguilera ’09, an inactive Crimson editor. At 9:47pm Schwartz got a phone call. He and Biggers left the room together soon after, returning to tell the crowd that they had lost. “We did not win the election,” Schwartz said. “It didn’t work out for us.” The failed presidential candidate, who called for off-campus social spaces in his campaign platform, encouraged...

Author: By Carola A Cintron-arroyo and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Candidates Ponder U.C. Election Loss | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...prescient article raised questions about his inscrutable strategies: "Madoff's investors rave about his performance - even though they don't understand how he does it," wrote Barron's Erin Arvedlund, who quoted a "very satisfied investor" as conceding, "Even knowledgeable people can't really tell you what he's doing." But for investors pocketing windfalls, the lure of easy money outstripped suspicions raised by Madoff's shroud of secrecy. When that shroud was lifted, however, Madoff's investment fund stood revealed as a classic Ponzi scheme: a con game in which the illusion of solvency was created by paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponzi Schemes | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...Having been on the opposite side of the table from her on the Everglades issue, I can tell you she is a formidable opponent." - Andy Rackley, then vice president and general manager of the Florida Sugar Cane League, the industry's principal state trade group. (New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy Czar: Carol Browner | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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