Peculiarities
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Officer who beat boy gets $1.6mA US policeman who was filmed punching a black youth and slamming him against a car has been awarded $1.6m (£890,000) in a race discrimination case.
Jeremy Morse, who was sacked by the Los Angeles police over the incident, said he had been treated more harshly than a black officer who was also there.
A second white officer was awarded $811,000 (£450,000) damages.
Inglewood Police Chief Ronald Banks, who had disciplined the officers, called the awards "ridiculous".
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SeatSale: License to Sit, 2001
You're given a license to sit for a few minutes (swipe card) then are warned that your time is up. That's when the spikes get you. (Yes, it's an art installation.) I want to dismiss it as too literal, but the more I look at it, the more entertaining it is.
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Hurtubise's Angel LightThe man behind
Project Grizzly is back, this time making a machine that can see through walls. Maybe it'll turn into another good movie. I wonder what kind of deadly microwave/xray technology is behind the Angel Light, though. It's one thing to taunt bears by yourself but quite another to subject others to plasma beams.
* Ray, 1/20/2005 04:02:06 PM
