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...murmuring midwives in a softly lit room, where ambient music plays and tea lights flicker. Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily be 20 hours or more. During that time, she is wracked by contractions - a euphemism that doesn...
...they would acquit any drug defendant, regardless of the evidence, if the crime did not involve violence. Their position undermines the legal system - society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence - shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes - are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write...
...they would acquit any drug defendant, regardless of the evidence, if the crime did not involve violence. Their position undermines the legal system--society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence--shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes--are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write...
...Brazil is notorious as one of the most violent societies in the world, and Sao Paulo, an unforgiving urban sprawl that is home to more than 20 million people, had long been a prime example of how lawlessness tormented the lives of law-abiding Brazilians. Today, though, Sao Paulo is a changed place. The annual murder tally for Sao Paulo state has plummeted from 12,800 in 1999 to 4,800 last year, a turnaround comparable to that of New York and Bogota, two cities famous for their successful policing programs...
...years. He came to the throne in Lhasa, after all, when he was only 4 years old, and he was receiving envoys from F.D.R. with intricate questions about the transportation of military supplies across Tibet during World War II when he was just 7. He was 11 when violent fighting broke out around him in Lhasa, and by the time he was 15-an age when most of us are stumbling through high school-he was the full-time political leader of his people, having to negotiate against Mao Zedong. After he fled Tibet at age 23, when Chinese pressure...