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Putting players under effective house arrest for the egregious offense of being born Cuban is not acceptable. Denying free speech in a publicly financed stadium 45 miles from the nation's capital is still less...
...marijuana for medicinal purposes? And when all it takes to prove need is the approval, written or oral, of a friendly doctor? And when not just patients with AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis are clamoring for the drug but also people with backaches, stress and drinking problems? One arrested planter told sheriff's deputies he was suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt Cannabis Center, a co-op that grows the drug for medicinal use, has a physician's certificate to treat...
Meanwhile, both of the wrongly accused boys are still reeling from the trauma of the past nine months, from what family members describe as police "interrogation," to the murder charges filed in a hostile courtroom, to their returning home under house arrest--and the mobs of journalists camped outside their homes for weeks. Even today nightmares haunt the boys, according to their friends and relatives, and school days have become a dreaded ritual of taunting, fights and confrontation with youths who tease them about the murder. The younger boy, who once wore his hair in tightly braided corn-rows...
Pincham has filed a lawsuit against the city seeking $100 million in damages for the wrongful arrest of his client. Prosecutors blame the botched investigation on procedural slips and dismiss any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing by detectives handling the case. Even if Pincham prevails in court, it's clear his client will have a hard time recapturing even a faint reminder of his previous life. Once an A student, family members say the boy, now a third-grader, brings home grades that range from failing to barely passing. He has been so tormented by his peers that rather than fight...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Each year 250,000 adults succumb to sudden cardiac death. Now French researchers say the condition is probably hereditary. They followed 7,000 middle-aged men for 23 years and found that those with a parent who died of sudden cardiac arrest were nearly twice as likely to die of it--and at about the same age--as those whose parents died of other causes...