Word: boyd
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...There's a North Dakota saying," explains Boyd Christenson, a radio talk-show host in Fargo: "When a little animal has been on the teat for a long time, it's tough to be weaned." In general, Fargoans refuse to wait passively for the budget cuts to rip their social fabric. In early March, 10 Fargo churches, along with the Salvation Army, created a Communal Needs fund to help locals who touch bottom. The money will be doled out to individuals who need emergency help with rent, transportation or food. There is not much to go around: donations now total...
...course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...
Then there is Kemper Boyd, a corrupt FBI agent from a once illustrious and then bankrupt Tennessee family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes...
...happens, two weeks ago the Justice Department funded a $2.15 million answer. Under the supervision of the National Institute of Justice, the department's R. and D. branch, three laboratories will develop prototypes for concealed-weapons detectors. Within 18 months, predicts NIJ technology chief David Boyd, they should have produced a device that can identify and describe a gun concealed on someone's person at a distance of 12 ft. without a frisk. Subsequently, he thinks, the range will increase...
Such a gadget would obviously improve on the current "is-it-an-Uzi-or-is-it-car-keys" standard of airport metal detectors. But Boyd anticipates a use beyond the doorway: mobile units costing less than $10,000 each that a cop could point out a car window and know who on a sidewalk is armed, before a gun is ever drawn. That, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, could "change the way we as a nation deal with guns...