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Events like these happen so often that Americans' sense of horror and outrage has been numbed. Death by gunfire has become nearly as banal in the U.S. as auto fatalities; shootings are so routine that they are sometimes ignored by the local news. Only by coming face to face with the needless victims does the wastefulness sink...
...gunshot wounds every two years than have died to date of AIDS. Similarly, guns take more American lives in two years than did the entire Viet Nam War. Only automobile accidents (total deaths per year: 48,700) surpass shootings as the leading cause of injury-induced fatalities. But while auto safety is a continuing public preoccupation, most Americans seem inexplicably indifferent to guns or unwilling to do much about them...
BOSTON--U.S. Marshals seized a tobacco store, an auto body shop and three homes yesterday in a campaign to confiscate inner-city buildings used for drug dealing, law enforcement officials said...
...tone, the work is a departure for Naipaul. "I was not interested in what I thought; I was interested in what the people thought," he says. Working up to 14 hours a day, Naipaul roamed the old Confederacy talking to black intellectuals, redneck philosophers, white-collar workers and auto-factory hands now employed by the Japanese. The result is a book of scenes and voices and, of course, a layering of past and present. The South's agricultural and religious roots, its history of slavery, and the evolution of its race relations and economy are played off against the comments...
...eyes, in their effort to persuade the cosmetics industry to cut down on animal testing. Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate approach. Nader, who last fall led the California revolt against excessive auto-insurance premiums, recently cited the auto industry and its suppliers for their joint quality-control efforts. Firestone, for example, allows automakers to inspect its plants and equipment...