Word: weaponeering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed very high 30 years ago, making the recent declines more like nicks in a high plateau...
...manufacturers and many law officers argue that stun guns actually prevent worse abuse by police. Without a shock weapon, a cop is left with the choice of clubbing a dangerous criminal with a nightstick or shooting him with a handgun, which can cause more severe injuries. Indeed, law agencies in the U.S. have used stun guns thousands of times, and there have been relatively few documented cases of serious injuries. "These devices don't kill people," insists Nova's president, John McDermit. Rick Smith, Air Taser's president, has launched a publicity campaign to rebut Amnesty's charges. In restricting...
...women in the U.S. And in June leading sex researchers will devote their annual meeting in Cape Cod to discussing how a range of impotence drugs might be tested in female patients. If the medications prove effective, they could offer women a safer alternative to the current best weapon against female sexual dysfunction, hormone-replacement therapy, which carries a slightly increased risk of cancer. Meanwhile, with the approval of Viagra (release date: mid-April) as an impotence treatment, doctors will be able to prescribe it "off-label" for women too. "We intend to use it in women once...
WASHINGTON: Apologies may be in vogue at the White House right now. But President Clinton offered no regrets Monday to some 20,000 would-be assault weapon owners -- whose imported guns will remain tantalizingly out of reach as a result of today's executive order. And that, says the President, is just as it should be. "You don't need an Uzi to go deer hunting," he told a Rose Garden audience of crime-fighting officials. "You don't need an AK-47 to shoot skeet...
Previous Class Day Speakers include Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me.), Richard Holbrooke, chief of the U.N. weapon inspection team in Iraq, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West...