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...some technical difficulties with the play’s final, explosive scene, the cast of eight’s seamless buildup of the most heart-wrenching human emotions begs the audience to return for the drama’s conclusion and ensures that—even with its treatment of hackneyed themes—this is not a play you’ve seen before...
...when Amnesty first sounded the alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based on anything from a bystander protesting unjustified arrest or violent treatment of someone by police to a suspect slandering peace officers or other public officials. Out of 31,800 court cases filed by police or prosecutors in 2006 for "outrage," nearly 14,000 ended with conviction - half of those involving jail terms. (See pictures of the British police clashing with protesters in London...
...forays into “musical pharmacology” are bound to be fraught with resistance and skepticism from doctors and patients alike. Though they draw upon the varied fields of neurobiology, endocrinology, psychology, sociology, and physiology, SANOSON hopes to synthesize these diverse disciplines into a single, clinically-proven treatment. The key, researchers believe, lies in synchronizing a patient’s regulatory processes to the prescribed music. SANOSON is one of the first companies to demonstrate the effectiveness of such synchronization in a clinical setting. As noted in a recent New York Times article, when these processes and structures...
...most abrasive legal tug-of-wars in the nation. The laws almost immediately led to an increase in drug convictions, but no measurable decrease in overall crime. Meanwhile, critics argued that they criminalized what was primarily a public health problem, incarcerated nonviolent felons who were better off in treatment, caused a jump in recidivism rates, and prevented judges from using discretion in sentencing. In January, during his State of the State address, New York Gov. David Paterson told his audience: "I can't think of a criminal justice strategy that has been more unsuccessful than the Rockefeller Drug Laws...
Under his predecessor, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Paterson and his colleagues began to work on new legislation that would replace punishment with treatment where needed, even in the case of some first offenders who pled guilty. The result was an agreement on March 25 between Paterson and state legislators on a bill that would give judges more discretion in sentencing by eliminating mandatory minimums for some higher-level drug offenders and making lower level offenders eligible for treatment...