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Man With Bong Attacks Police Dispatcher 2 hours, 45 minutes ago GERMANTOWN, Wis. - A 22-year-old man was wrestled to the ground in the Germantown Police Department Friday afternoon after threatening a dispatcher with a glass bong and a shotgun, police said. The man walked into the department and handed a threatening note to the dispatcher at a her window around 5 p.m., police said. As she read the note, he threw a glass bong at the bulletproof glass, police said. The bong shattered, but the window did not. He then pulled out a shotgun, but three officers using a...

Doctors and patients both take risks when they do business together. The physician (for the most part), only puts his wealth is at risk: He protects himself by means of malpractice insurance. But for the patient, both wealth and physical health are at risk. At present, the patient can protect himself only against the risk of incurring a ruinous financial cost for the diagnosis and treatment of his illness: He protects himself by means of health insurance. How do we create an insurance regime that provides a form of protection neither of these policies can provide? I propose a new...

A Marin County man has died of head injuries he suffered while heading for that big weekend peace rally in San Francisco. Two people were hurt when they hit their heads on a San Francisco building overhang after sticking their heads out of a skylight on a converted double-deck bus. Officials at San Francisco General Hospital say Tony Hernandez died yesterday. Diane Canning of Sebastopol remains in critical condition. The bus had been converted by welding part of a V-W microbus on the roof. The skylight was in the V-W portion.