Word: warrant
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David Graham turned himself in to Cambridge police on January 18, three days after a warrant had been issued for his arrest...
First developed three decades ago, the small battery-operated devices transmit electrical impulses that correct both irregular and slow heartbeats. However, many abnormal rhythms do not warrant pacemakers; some may be caused by medication or associated with circulatory problems. When Greenspan and his colleagues reviewed the 1983 medical charts for 382 Philadelphia-area pacemaker patients, they found that 20% of the implants were completely unnecessary and 36% were not adequately justified. The solution, he argues, includes better training for physicians and more diagnostic tests...
Israeli soldiers and border police can enter Arab homes without a warrant. Palestinians are routinely stopped and required to show identification papers. Arabs can be detained for up to six months without trial. Their houses can be sealed or demolished on suspicion that a member of the family is engaged in "terrorist" activity. They can be arrested for dozens of offenses that do not exist in Israel, including flying the Palestinian flag, reading "subversive" literature or holding a press conference without permission...
...give up their constitutional rights when they step onto school property. But the Justices have also recognized that the need for an orderly school environment sometimes imposes limits on those rights. In recent years, for example, the majority has voted to permit the search of student possessions without a warrant and has allowed school officials to suspend a student for making sexual innuendos in a speech. The Justices were in that mood again last week when, in a 5 to 3 ruling, the court upheld a high school principal's right to censor a student newspaper...
Batman may look the same, but he has never acted quite this way before. Grimly going after wrongdoers, he is part avenger and part vigilante. While some citizens cheer, others denounce him as the Bernhard Goetz of Gotham City, and the police commissioner issues a warrant for his arrest. He is not only a hero for a more cynical time, but the standard-bearer of a fresh form of imaginative fiction. In 1986, when Writer-Artist Frank Miller created his formidable Batman epic The Dark Knight Returns (Warner; 188 pages; $12.95), he conceived the adventure as a single narrative flow...