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HOME SAFETY Parents take precautions to childproof their homes, but a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that they often ignore one major safety issue: keeping guns away from their kids. Among gun owners with children under age seven at home, 57% said they do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

When I was small enough to find the entire experience extremely exciting, my parents took my brother and me on the Autotrain - from somewhere in northern Virginia right on down to my grandparents? house in northern Florida. It promised to be romantic and glamorous - rather like those soft-focus, murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'd Love to Love Amtrak — But It's Hard | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Doctors suggest that if you have a proven predisposition to thrombosis, you should consider an injection of anticoagulant within 24 hours prior to flying. Though taking aspirin before takeoff may ward off clots for some people, pregnant women, among others, shouldn?t do it. Check with your doctor. Once inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Vein Thrombosis | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Each Crusader system costs $23 million and, as witnessed by TIME during recent tests, it constitutes an amazing weapon. The three-man-crew compartment, lined with computer displays, looks more like the inside of a highflying jet cockpit than a mud-churning battlefield beast. Each system is actually two vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blasting the Crusader | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...true that friendship is sometimes an exercise in compartmentalizing. We have all been friends with A. and with B., even though A. and B. hate each other. But to have one compartment for a friend who is a survivor of death camps and another compartment for one of the murderers---here broadmindedness approached the grotesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Warmth of Friendship in a Cold Season | 12/27/2000 | See Source »

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