Word: boxer
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...bipartisan wave of support. In July the Republican-led House approved, by a 197-vote margin, a plan that would give a gun to any pilot who volunteered for and could pass weapons training. Now that the bill has locked up backing from anti-gun Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, the upper chamber will probably send it to the President for his signature. "All sides of the political spectrum recognize that pilots need to be able to defend the cockpit with lethal force," says Stephen Luckey, a former 747 captain who is the security...
...powerful national gun lobby, which says "thousands" of pilots are members, has pressed Congress hard, calling the issue "one of our top priorities." Boxer's decision to throw in her support because she was dissatisfied with the federal air-marshal program triggered bipartisan momentum...
...veers from history to biology to autobiography. But in the end Twigger's numerous digressions are worth the trip--like his set piece on the 11,000-volume Yung Lo Ta Tien encyclopedia, which contained the totality of Chinese culture before it was burned in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. As every good traveler knows, some roads shouldn't be missed just because they don't lead anywhere...
...Miller does the pictures as well as words. His style has gotten goofier in the intervening years. He mixes traditional superhero tropes like broad shoulders and rippling muscles with absurd caricature elements like giant feet and hands. Lex Luthor looks like a Mr. Potato-Head who wears nothing but boxer shorts and hi-top Converse sneakers. Miller shares top billing with the colorist, Lynn Varley, who mixes digitized effects with traditional coloring in clever ways. One scene has Superman standing amid the ruble of Metropolis, where even the colors have broken down into mottled, streaky blotches...
...publications. DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England...