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Another respectable human-rights monitoring group, Helsinki Watch, says that giving electric shocks to prisoners' genitals, beating the soles of their feet, sexual abuse, putting prisoners on blocks of ice and hanging them by the arms, are all methods still used.
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On Nov. 7, Hawaiian Electric reported third-quarter earnings of 49 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 42 cents by 17%.
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Both Edison and Swan invented the electric light bulb (or rather, a workable one) at about the same time, Swan beating Edison to a patent by a year.
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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).
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