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...dinosaurs," says flat-track pioneer Lacy Attuso, a.k.a. Whiskey L'Amour of the Texas Rollergirls in Austin. "We're the new wave." Attuso, who is a p.r. exec by day, says the Rollergirls are creating "a coalition of the willing" that will hash out official flat-track rules in Chicago this summer. And the league's inaugural meeting comes none too soon. "The injury rate in flat track is extremely high," warns Tim Patten, owner of the old-school Bay City Bombers. "Their play gets dirty real quick." --By Adam Pitluk and Julie Rawe
...politicians just talking tough? Committee members repeatedly threatened to rescind baseball's antitrust exemption, which has been on the books for more than 80 years, if the sport doesn't adopt harsher drug rules. But some experts think Congress is bluffing. "Why would they do that?" asks Chicago-based sports-marketing consultant Marc Ganis. "It's an arrow in their quiver to say they'll pull it. If they did, what would they then have to hold over baseball...
That dream seems to have stalled, with some police departments already beginning to curb orders. The bad news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf...
...staunchly defended its technology in a press release issued the same day as the Amnesty International report, claiming that "while not risk-free," it was "safe and effective." (The company has not responded to TIME's repeated requests for interviews.) Matthew Tobias, a special-operations commander for the Chicago police, says the department stands behind Tasers and plans to keep using them. "Tasers reduce injuries to officers and citizens," says Tobias. Police in Cincinnati, Seattle and Madison, Wis., have also backed Tasers in written reports...
...began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either public sympathy or publicity. Owney Madden of the Manhattan beerage offered his support. Scarface Al Capone posted a reward for the child's return, expressed a wish to Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane that he be let out of his Chicago jail long enough to direct the release of the child. Last week this offer was renewed in more positive form through a Capone agent to Col. Lindbergh. Capone promised to return the baby "in two or three days" if Col. Lindbergh could get him free that long. This new Capone...