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Without across-the-board background checks and a database of firearms sales, it is extremely difficult for law enforcement officials to trace the source of guns recovered in crimes. Police have to trace firearms through manufacturers, distributors and individual gun dealers in a difficult, time-consuming process. Even worse, once a retail dealer has sold the gun, it can be re-sold by the owner and any subsequent owner generally without any records being kept, causing a trail of evidence to go cold before the criminal or terrorist can be found...
...post-Sept. 11 world has, for some people, meant a seizing of life's simple pleasures. "Business is better now," says London bartender Simon Ervin. "Our regulars are more regular." Rome newsstand dealer Germana Leo says she still does "everything I did before ... even more so. Go out to restaurants. Go to the movies. Getting on with life helps get over the pain...
...Omar owes the kid his life for pulling him out the wreckage after a truck bomb destroyed his house in Kandahar several years back.) Majid is fanatically devoted to Mullah Omar. In Kandahar, the other key player is the governor, Mullah Hassan, who is also more of a wheeler-dealer than a wanna-be martyr...
...lovely phosphorescent powder was unlike anything Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, had ever seen. Her father, a junk dealer in the Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown...
...engine failure, they continue to rotate and allow a safe, controlled descent. The other thing that makes the gyroplane different from a helicopter is the bottom line: running costs (about $160 per hr.) are almost halved. The gyroplane is in the final stages of FAA testing, and a 13-dealer network is busy targeting tourism and agriculture markets. It might also do service on the homeland-security beat: CEO David Groen says the craft would be ideal for border, pipeline and nuclear-facility surveillance...