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...Katie: My analogy of rape is to car theft. You can buy heavy-duty anti-theft devices or loud alarms or devices that will disable your engine when a thief comes near. Women can choose to never be alone with a guy and other absurd extremes to protect themselves from rape. But, the car thief can still steal the car if they really want to. Women can reduce the risk, but ultimately rape will only end when rapists stop raping...
Like crime nationwide, theft in Cambridgeport has decreased significantly in the '90s compared to the '80s. And those three categories all decreased by double-digit percentages last year compared...
...Napster is the greatest example of aiding and abetting a theft that I have ever seen," says Ron Stone, manager of Bonnie Raitt and Tracy Chapman, among other artists. "Ninety-nine percent of their content is illegal." What really bothers Stone and the rest of the biz is the fact that 100% of their content is free--no money for the labels, artists or managers. "Napster is the nail in the coffin if you're in the business of selling digits on a disc," says music-industry consultant Jim Griffin...
...Before, people lived like apes--everybody fed himself," Wrangham said. "[With] cooking, it became worthwhile to bring food in large quantities to a central location, and the concepts of ownership and theft came into existence...
Females often found themselves victims of theft from the larger males. As a result, it was advantageous for a female to align herself with a male interested in protecting their mutual food stores--hence the modern-day couples...