KARACHI, Pakistan — Fakhra Younas went under the surgeon's knife 38 times, hoping to repair the gruesome damage inflicted by a vengeful Pakistani man who had doused her face in acid a decade earlier, virtually melting her mouth, nose and ears.
It is time to shatter the taboos that have prevented blacks from speaking plainly and constructively about homosexuality, about H.I.V. and AIDS, and about drugs and other destructive practices that have inflicted gruesome damage on one generation after another of young black Americans.
In the Afro-founded northern Choco department, consistently the most impoverished in the country, the fighting over land-based smuggling routes and the increasingly profitable illegal gold mining industry has displaced tens of thousands and inflicted gruesome collateral damage, like the infamous 2002 FARC church bombing in Bojaya that killed 113 people.
In 2010, a federal judge struck down a city law that would have forced tobacco retailers to post gruesome images of damage caused by smoking.
In 2010, a federal judge struck down a New York City law that would have forced tobacco retailers to post gruesome images of health damage caused by smoking, finding that only the federal government had the authority to regulate cigarette warnings and advertisements.
Administration officials say that the firefighters and chiefs were promised confidentiality when they gave their accounts, and that to release them would violate that promise and reveal everything from opinions about the city's emergency response to gruesome details of death and damage.
South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore had his right knee dislocated and sustained damage to several ligaments on a gruesome-looking play against Tennessee on Saturday.
That was based on a well-founded belief that text warnings about the health damage caused by smoking tend to be ignored while gruesome images depicting, say, horribly damaged teeth or lungs grab one's attention.
The gruesome deaths devastated Crystal Lake residents who returned Saturday to inspect the damage.
When confronted by the gruesome reality of life for some of society's most vulnerable and damaged (not to mention violent and damaging) young people, there is a temptation to wring one's hands and say: "Well, what can you do?" In this case, the answer is clear and compelling.
In 2011, Parsons released a gruesome video of him and his hunting party slaughtering "problem elephants" that had damaged crops in Zimbabwe.
