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...years ago, Richmond's homicide rate was second only to that of Gary, Ind. Gun toting had become pervasive in the city's poorer neighborhoods. Says James Comey, criminal-division chief in the local U.S. Attorney's office: "People carried guns because gun-possession crimes were not treated as anything more than a misdemeanor. What might have been a fistfight or stabbing 20 years ago was a shootout because everybody had a gun in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Gun? Will Travel | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

However, no announcement had been made aboutpossible exam postponements as of last night,according to Tufts first-year Stephen E. Comey...

Author: By Eben B. Goodale, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Winter Storm Hits Harvard, Area Colleges | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...even more incredible was his teammate Jim MacDonald's second place finish. At one point in the race, MacDonald demonstrated his swimming prowess when he fell into the Steeple Chase pool. After his tumble, he picked himself up and continued to run, beating Yale's Charles Comey by over five seconds...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Men Thinclads Whip Yale, Women Edged Out | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...have so far failed to do with their safety campaign: to put a halt to the construction of new nuclear power plants. In the early days of nuclear power, scientists forecast that the electricity from nukes would be "too cheap to meter." Today, points out Nuclear Opponent David Dinsmore Comey, the economic advantage "has turned out to be an illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Nuclear Debate | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...breeder is a monster," says David Comey, environmental director for Chicago's Businessmen in the Public Interest. Nuclear Pioneer George Weil agrees, calling the breeder concept "dangerous and unproved." Some objections focus on the use of liquid sodium (a tricky substance that explodes on contact with water and burns in air) as a cooling medium. Others concern the fuel, plutonium, the basic ingredient of the hydrogen bomb and one of the deadliest substances known. Finally, the critics wonder how to get rid of radioactive wastes from any nuclear reactor, some of which remain lethal for 500,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Energy Crisis: Are We Running Out? | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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