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Well, yes. Not in the sense of grabbing random people off the street, but let's look again at Jaworski. He's clearly mentally ill, he's had violent run-ins with the police, and he had a warrant out for his arrest. Wouldn't he be a good candidate to be taken off the street?

"But where would we take them?" Parekh asks. "Where would that place be? We don't want to go back to the days of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' either. It used to be very easy to lock people up."

Those days, immortalized in Ken Kesey's "Cuckoo's Nest," ended in the '60s when mental health professionals became convinced that Thorazine and other drugs could treat schizophrenia and other mental conditions. They argued that locking people up in asylums was pointless and expensive.

Instead, the idea was that once successfully medicated, mentally ill patients would be released from confinement. The original idea was that states would set up treatment centers that would monitor progress, but in most cases those centers were not funded.

In Greenwald's liveblogging of the hearing, he continued:

"Mukasey promised to review the policy of only prosecuting 'extreme' rather than 'mainstream' pornography, and vowed: 'I recognize that mainstream materials can have an effect of cheapening a society, objectifying women, and endangering children in a way that we can't tolerate.'"

"The very idea of prosecuting what Senator Hatch calls 'mainstream obscenity' is antithetical to the First Amendment," according to Turner, who is based in Palo Alto. "It undermines the distinction between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity, so that government can censor any erotic expression."

President Felipe Calderon called the flooding in Tabasco state one of Mexico's worst recent natural disasters, and pledged to rebuild.

A week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, drowning at least 80 percent of the oil-rich state. Much of the state capital, Villahermosa, looked like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, with water reaching to second-story rooftops and desperate people awaiting rescue.

At least one death was reported and nearly all services, including drinking water and public transportation, were shut down. The flood affected more than 900,000 people in the state of 2 million — their homes flooded, damaged or cut off by high water.

Fearing their young daughter's health, the Browns hired an environmental engineer who detected high levels of several types of mold, including a black mold fungus called Stachybotrys.

"It terrified me," Kerri Brown told WYFF-TV in Greenville. "I had heard reports of what it does for children, and I was terrified."

The condition affects the ears, which become hot, itchy and sore before blistering and crusting.

A study in the British Journal of Dermatology found it only occurs during lambing season, which lasts up to three months, but the cause is unclear.

The researchers from Southampton believe "lambing ear" may be a problem associated with indoor farming.