The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing $7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered fordevelopment or acquisition."
Boy Sues Math Teacher Who Assigned Summer Homework
Teen, Dad Say School Has No Authority Over Students During Summer
POSTED: 11:47 am EST January 20, 2005
MILWAUKEE -- A suburban Milwaukee teen and his dad are suing the boy's math teacher for assigning homework to be done over summer vacation.
They are seeking to bar homework assignments over the summer.
Peer Larson (pictured, left), a 17-year-old student at Whitnall High School, and his father, Bruce Larson of Hales Corners, contend in the suit which stemmed from an assignment in a math class that school officials have no legal authority to make students do homework over the summer because the state-required 180-day school year is over.
"It is poor public policy," Bruce Larson argued in the lawsuit filed last week in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. "These students are still children, yet they are subjected to increasing pressure to perform to ever-higher standards in numerous theaters. Come summer, they need a break."
The Larsons said they believe that, if teachers want to assign homework during the summer vacation, it should be voluntary and not factored into the student's grade without the student's consent.
Whitnall School Board member Mary Ann Lindberg said the board left the matter up to administrators.
"Sometimes those kinds of decisions are best made at the building level with the teachers and the principal and perhaps someone in administration, because they know best what they're trying to achieve," Lindberg said.
Whitnall School District Superintendent Karen Petric says the district tried to resolve the matter, but was unable to do so.
"I strongly believe the district acted appropriately and didn't do anything wrong," Petric said. "Court is not the place to solve it. It doesn't belong there."
Petric said the district would not have anything else to say on the matter because of concerns over student confidentiality.
..All at once you could hear the screaming ch*nks and no one was safe from the wave there were africans drowning, little chinamen swept away you could hear god laughing, "swim you b*tches swim"
So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami
you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head
and now the children will be sold to child slavery...
Four Sacramento, California firefighters who admitted to having sex while on duty have been suspended pending an investigation, a spokesman for the city's fire department said on Tuesday. The three men, including a captain, admitted to having sex with a fourth firefighter, a woman, while on duty. Superiors put all four on administrative leave on Monday, marking the second recent sex scandal to hit the sleepy state capital's fire department.
BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (IPS) - Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
Many Iraqis said Monday that their names were marked on a list provided by the government agency that provides monthly food rations before they were allowed to vote.
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"Two of the food dealers I know told me personally that our food rations would be withheld if we did not vote," said Saeed Jodhet, a 21-year-old engineering student who voted in the Hay al-Jihad district of Baghdad.
The pressure may be getting to Mr. Bush. He came up with a gem of a Freudian slip yesterday. At a signing ceremony for a $417 billion military spending bill, the president said:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
Idaho girl scalped!
BOISE, Idaho - A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and
scalped by a woman in what police said may have been an act
of revenge.
"When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped,"
said Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. "The top of her head, her
hair, was completely cut off."
Police are searching for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared
after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles
from Boise.
The girl, whose name was not released, is recovering at home.
Police said doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was
found near one of the hot springs.
Braddock said the attack may have been motivated by revenge,
but he would not elaborate.
The Associated Press
Cops: Idaho girl scalped
BOISE, Idaho - A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped by a woman in what police said may have been an act of revenge.
"When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped," said Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. "The top of her head, her hair, was completely cut off."
Police are searching for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles from Boise.
The girl, whose name was not released, is recovering at home. Police said doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was found near one of the hot springs.
Braddock said the attack may have been motivated by revenge, but he would not elaborate.
生徒は女子高生。 「男女が激突するポルノ」・・・これは何かの誤訳？
Coach Resigns After Porn Investigation --- Officials Say Coach Showed Porn Tape To Players
POSTED: 3:33 pm CST January 29, 2005 UPDATED: 4:58 pm CST January 29, 2005
NEW LONDON, Iowa -- A southeast Iowa high school girls basketball coach has resigned after an investigation accused him of showing a tape with pornography on it to his team.
New London school officials said coach Paul Lorber resigned out of respect to the district and the players on his team.
Officials said a school investigation showed that Lorber was showing a game tape during a practice when a pornographic scene briefly appeared.
They said the tape had been previously used, and contained material that Lorber was unaware of.
The coach stopped the tape immediately and apologized to his players.
Lorber was in his eighth season as the head coach of the New London High School girls basketball team.
Teacher and coach Gina Sisk has been named as his replacement.
During his time at New London, Lorber lead the Lady Tigers to 120-70 record. He also won the Golden Plaque award from the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Teacher reassigned after complaints about sex education quiz
By ADRIAN BRUNE, Staff Writer
A popular Magothy River Middle School teacher has been reassigned to a "non-school-based position" after parents said he gave a sexually charged quiz to students.
Principal Charles Dunlap sent a letter to parents Friday informing them that physical education teacher Jason Madey has been moved pending an investigation.
Questions on the "Young People's Sex Quiz" ranged from the only legal sexual position in Washington, D.C., to the best method to avoid HIV infection.
"In Detroit it is only legal to have sex in a car if a.) The car is moving, b.) The car is parked on your own property, or c.) The car is broken,"
reads one of the questions.
Hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are required by law to furnish their rooms with twin beds only. There should be a minimum of two feet between the beds, and it is illegal for a couple to make love on the floor between the beds.
The only legal sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position
while in Nevada, sex without a condom is considered illegal.
One example: "On at least two incidents in mid-to-late June 2004, Patterson intensely pressured Keller to expose herself to Koko while they were working outside where other employees could potentially view Keller's naked body. ... On one such occasion, Patterson said, 'Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see new nipples. I will turn my back so Kendra can show you her nipples.' "
Some readers have questioned the figure of 10,000 enforced prostitutes brought into this country each year.
The source of that number is Kevin Bales, recommended to the magazine by Human Rights Watch as the best authority on the extent of enforced prostitution in the United States,
who based his estimates on State Department documents, arrest and prosecution records and information from nearly 50 social service agencies.
ROTHSCHILD — The man who found a bank bag containing $870,000 in checks and cash Jan. 28 and returned it to the village of Rothschild has received $500 from its insurance company.
John Jazdzewski, 52, also received $200 in gift cards from local businesses and other gifts.
es; a lifetime membership for him and his family to the Rothschild/ Schofield Aquatic Center; a two-night stay and water park passes at The Lodge at Cedar Creek in Rothschild; $100 worth of groceries at Pick ’n Save in Weston; and a six-month membership at the Aspirus YMCA in Weston.
Ross' gripes began in the mid-1990s, after he had been treated for mouth cancer at the University of Illinois at Chicago hospital. Disfigured by the treatment, which left him cancer-free, according to the hospital, he became convinced that he had been the victim of malpractice.
After a string of state and federal judges had rejected his claims, the Polish emigre last year filed a federal lawsuit that was randomly assigned to Lefkow. His anger came through in documents seeking more than $500 million from the state of Illinois, and millions more from doctors and lawyers.
Ross said he lost all his upper teeth during the treatment and needed to have his jaw rebuilt. The hospital said in a statement Thursday that Ross received "conservative and appropriate care" and that disfigurement is a common result of the treatment.
"He was becoming obsessed with the issue and more and more paranoid," said Don Rose, a Chicago political consultant whose partner hired Ross to do electrical work. He said Ross asked his help in filing his lawsuits and later asked him for money. Rose said he recommended several lawyers but did not give him any money.
Cline said Ross' name was on a list of litigants whom FBI agents and detectives had intended to interview. He said police were working their way through 600 tips and hundreds of cases in Lefkow's court and the business relations of her husband, a labor lawyer.
http://www.answers.com/topic/compulsory-sterilization United States of America
The first significant country to undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics was the United States of America. The principle targets of the American program were the mentally retarded and the mentally ill, but also targetted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, the epileptic, the physically deformed, and even orphans and the homeless.
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/cesa.html
Sterilization abuse first gained national attention in 1973 with the revelation that two black sisters, the Relf sisters, aged 12 and 14, had been deemed mentally incompetent by an Alabama physician who subsequently sterilized them using Federal funds to pay for the procedures.14 Their mother, who could not read or write, had been deceived into signing her "x" on the consent forms. A federal lawsuit followed; one result being that a Federal judge ordered DHEW to stiffen its then newly formed guidelines in order to prevent such abuse from occurring again.
Then there is the case of the South Carolina physician who refused to deliver a black welfare mother's fourth child unless she agreed to be sterilized postpartum. He subsequently sterilized 28 women in three months, all of them Black.18
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/44028.htm
Investigators were somewhat perplexed about his story, in part because there was no evidence Chen had urinated in the three days he was supposedly trapped, police sources said.
But Chen said he urinated through the door, "so I didn't have to smell it."
ウンコはしなかったんだね。
"The elevators have always been a problem," said Leslie Harrison, who has lived in the building for 30 years. "When you ride, it stops, it shakes, it jumps. Sometimes they drop three or four flights."
このくらいは中国では当たり前だろう。
On Thursday, Wendy's announced it would give a $50,000 reward to the first person providing verifiable information leading to the positive identification of the origin of the finger.
"It's very important to our company to find out the truth in this incident," said Tom Mueller, Wendy's president and chief operating officer. "We believe someone knows exactly what happened, and hopefully the reward will encourage this person to come forward."
LAS VEGAS -- The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits -- including a claim against another fast-food restaurant.
Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records.
...
Ayala acknowledged, however, that her family received a settlement for their medical expenses about a year ago after reporting that her daughter, Genesis, got sick from food at an El Pollo Loco restaurant in Las Vegas.
Ayala, 39, was taken into custody Thursday night at her suburban Las Vegas home based on a warrant alleging grand larceny and attempted grand larceny. She has denied placing the finger in the chili.
Davis said the grand larceny allegation has no connection to the Wendy's case and instead stems from a 2002 incident in which Ayala allegedly tried to sell a mobile home in San Jose that she didn't own. The victim lost $11,000.
Davis said the second allegation, the attempted grand larceny, pertained to the Wendy's case.
anticipating the woman is Edith Schuth (SHOOF), whose son claims he hid her body in the freezer more than four years ago.
Schuth told investigators he hid the body after his mother died of natural causes on Aug. 15, 2000. He said he was afraid he would be investigated for homicide or abuse, and he also would have to live without his mother's monthly Social Security checks.
