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...refused defeat but stayed within the bounds of the law, constructing a dummy rifle from an Internet printout that simulated every aspect of my Izmash, right down to a laser system to register a hit or a miss. I practiced with this mockup out in the shed in my backyard until I cleared the permit with the cops and got the real gun. The man can't touch...
Carlson has just finished compiling a compact disk with all of the Amateur Scientist columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
...husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine. But they managed to pay $78,000 in cash for that roomy house at the bottom of Hershey Avenue, with a swing set in the backyard. They forked over an additional $17,000 for a Ford Econoline van. Not until drug agents raided the place did neighbors know how they were able to afford...
...Gaza also militates against compromise; Arafat is well aware that signing away the refugees' claims would all but invite them to reconstitute the PLO in exile with the backing of more hostile states such as Iraq, Syria and Libya, and to further challenge Arafat?s authority in his own backyard. And after three months of bloodletting, the Palestinian leader knows such challengers may find a receptive audience. All of which militates against him accepting the president's deal...
...mousetrap. Consumer advocates, government regulators and industry experts say that virtually everyone who contacts these firms with dreams of riches will in fact end up poorer. The vast majority of these invention-promotion companies, the experts charge, are nothing but massive scams aimed at often naive and sometimes desperate backyard tinkerers, many of whom have more hope than business acumen. Even the companies that operate within the law rarely provide inventors with the tools necessary to market their inventions...