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...stories have so shamed this city as that of Jon Burge, the former boss of Chicago detectives who earned much fame for their work on the toughest cases. Very simply, he and his underlings seemed to solve nearly every investigation thrown their way during much of the 1970s and '80s, from cop killings to serial rapes. How did they get their answers? According to dozens of civil lawsuits and the claims of more than a hundred suspects, it was by force - sometimes a cattle prod held to a man's groin, or a burn caused by a radiator. One suspect...
Leaving aside election-year sensitivities, supporters point to the moral logic of their position. Leftover embryos are routinely thrown away; surely there is no sin in scientists' deriving potentially lifesaving treatment from them first. Opponents respond that there is nothing to stop scientists from doing that. The issue is federal funding, which Bush believes should focus on research that does not require the destruction of embryos. But aren't those particular leftover embryos already doomed? "We don't take death-row inmates and use their organs either," says David Christensen, the conservative Family Research Council's director of congressional affairs...
...Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away to such an extent that the Mint made 8 billion new ones last year--far more than any other coin--at a cost of roughly $100 million--which is like a penny to the government...
...stork with a reedy voice, a techie's el cheapo digital Timex and - his one touch of flash - a wide silver ring emblazoned with a cross. "I think the majority of people in the U.S. probably occupy a middle ground but feel under attack by the bombs thrown from either side," he says. "We haven't heard very much about the way these views can be rendered into a very satisfying harmony. And I do hope that both camps are a potential audience for what I have...
...Whether this weekend's events represent an escalation of the violence or has simply thrown the ongoing carnage into relief remains to be seen...