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Milton Berle on 2001-11-12 15:36 [#00051010] | |||||||||
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- An American Airlines jet with 255 people on board crashed Monday in a residential neighborhood after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. American Airlines Flight 587 went down at 9:17 a.m. EST in the Rockway section of the New York City borough of Queens about five miles from Kennedy Airport. Mayor Rudy Giuliani said there were two crash sites -- one where the plane landed and another where an engine landed. Both were about six blocks from a school building. The school was closed for the Veterans Day holiday. The plane was scheduled to leave at 8:40 a.m. EST, but takeoff was delayed until 9:14 a.m. EST. The plane, an Airbus A300, was en route from New York to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the plane was carrying 246 passengers and nine crew members. An eyewitness told CNN, "I was in my kitchen.. and I saw the plane hit the house behind my house. It was so low, I was ducking almost, then huge fireballs and I jumped out of the ... window of my house. "I ran right across the street ... it's unbelievable," she said, overcome by emotion. "It sounded like two planes. It was flying too low, and then it hit. It was like a bomb exploded." Another eyewitness, Phyllis Paul, who lives near the crash site, said a "big, silvery piece of metal" fell behind her house before the plane went down. "I was sitting having breakfast, and I heard the engines very loud," she said. "They were loud and low, and because of what happened September 11, it gave me a chill. ... I looked out of the window to see if I could see where it was." Paul said she got her 10-year-old son and left the house. "I didn't hear an explosion at first when I saw the metal fall. I heard an explosion about a minute and a half later," she said. Asked if terrorism was suspected, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Bill Schumann said, "All options are open at this time. We have very limited information." The Pentagon said surveillance fights were going on in the area and nothing unusual had been spotted. At least four houses were on fire, and a huge plume of smoke could be seen rising from the site. The New York Fire Department dispatched 44 firetrucks and 200 firefighters to the scene. All three New York City-area airports -- Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark -- closed after the crash, along with all the city's bridges and tunnels. Giuliani declared a Level One emergency, mobilizing all available police, fire and emergency personnel. |
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Milton Berle on 2001-11-12 15:40 [#00051011] | |||||||||
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Ok, I read it now, it doesn't seem all that great anymore. |
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Milton Berle on 2001-11-12 15:44 [#00051012] | |||||||||
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California child molesters could face chemical castration August 29, 1996 Web posted at: 5:45 a.m. EDT SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- Child molesters could face "chemical castration" under a unique and controversial California bill aimed at stifling the sex drives of convicted pedophiles. The bill -- the first of its kind in the nation -- would allow judges to order first-time child molesters to take a hormone-suppressing drug upon their parole from prison. Repeat offenders would be required to either take the drug, Depo Provera, or undergo physical castration. Both actions would block the production of the male hormone in the testes that generates sex drive. Both houses of the California legislature have passed the bill, and it could go to Gov. Pete Wilson as early as next week. "I am going to sign it," Wilson said. "I hope it will be effective." The bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Bill Hoge, believes it could put an end to repeat offenses. "The recidivism rate -- repeat criminal activity -- drops from 87 percent to 2 percent (with some sort of castration)," said Hoge. "That's pretty darn effective. That's what we want to do here." Legal challenges expected The legislation is not without opponents. Legal experts predict court challenges if the bill becomes law. "There are problems regarding the right to privacy, the right to procreate, the right to exercise control over one's body," said Valerie Small Navarro, a lobbyist with the California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Dr. Michael Meek and the California Psychiatric Association believe there's more to child molestation than male hormones. "It's a bad law as written," Meek said. "The classic example would be someone who molests children because voices tell him to molest children. Well, they're doing it from a psychotic point of view because voices tell them. Progesterone is not going to help at all." Depo Provera can be helpful, especially combined with other forms of treatment, said Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, but it is not a cure-all for pedophilia. "The notion we can give someone a shot, once a week, and walk away from them and feel comfortable, I think is a very naive point of view," Berlin said. But Hoge contends chemical castration is the best solution so far. "We're talking about people who create the most heinous crime in this country or in the world. That's what needs to be dealt with," Hoge said. "We need to be thinking about the victims, their families and any possible future victim." |
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