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Smith & Wesson's web site now boasts a flashing button that leads visitors to the text of the agreement, complete with new bullet points that underscore the "real" meaning or ramifications of each clause. Federal lawmakers don't know what hit them: While Smith & Wesson has endured a great deal of industry ire after its conciliatory move, there was little indication the company would back down altogether. Maybe they should have seen it coming: "The confusion between the Smith & Wesson reading of the deal and the government's reading was apparent from the get-go," says TIME national correspondent Edward...
...Maxim left a pile of bullet-ridden corpses of competing magazines and spawned such raunchy followers as FHM, which, like Maxim, tried to Americanize the British "lad mag." But the most glaring ratification of Maxim's success came last spring, when the Conde Nast magazine empire brought in Golin to edit the archrival young-men's magazine Details. So it was all the more stunning when last Monday, less than a year into the hot editor's tenure, Conde Nast president Steve Florio told a hastily convened Details staff to clean out their desks by Friday, confounding staff members...
What's certainly missing is the service's piece de resistance, the bullet train modeled on France's futuristic TGV (train a grande vitesse). Now scheduled to launch in July, the Amtrak bullet has been delayed as builders attempt to adapt European tilting technology to America's rough freight tracks. Meanwhile, Amtrak is introducing other improvements to its Northeastern service under the Acela logo--primarily a reduction of the Boston-New York trip from five hours to just under four, using newly electrified tracks. The bullet train, a.k.a. the Acela Express, will reach speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., cutting...
Since the bullet train is still being tested on safety runs, I took one of the less glamorous trains that feature refurbished cars pulled by the electric Acela engine. With a coach seat running $112 round trip off-peak and $142 peak, the Acela Regional is cheaper than the cheapest coach seat on the Delta Air Lines shuttle between these two cities...
...Movement, as Winkler might put it, got a significant boost last week, when Stephen King premiered his most recent story, Riding the Bullet, exclusively on the Net, causing a near meltdown of the computers that served it up to more than 500,000 people the first day. His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered. If you're unknown, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to get discovered and attain stardom. And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself...