Word: deere
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...armed." Noting that Wisconsin has nearly 1 million licensed hunters, Fendry doesn't give the petition a chance. Nor does alderman Fredrick Gordon, who represents some of the most dangerous streets in the city. "We're not being victimized by people from the N.R.A. who use weapons to shoot deer. We're being victimized by criminals...
...even in deer-hunting country -- the Milwaukee Yellow Pages lists more than 30 taxidermists -- attitudes are shifting. Wisconsin passed a mandatory criminal background check on handgun buyers in 1991, and Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly...
...underground. Often he cloaked himself in artful guises, dressing as a woman or riding in coffins as a corpse. At least four times, moments before the trap sprang shut, the wily farmer's son with the double chin and potbelly slipped away and mysteriously vanished. "He was like a deer," says a DEA agent involved in the chase. "He could disappear into the hills...
...club members wore a moose head and brown cloth to represent the Columbian white-tailed deer. The two lay on the ground with their extremities stiffly extended to mimic dead deer...
...danger seems to have receded for the moment. The death rate has dropped from 60% of victims to 35%, and only three cases were reported in the Four Corners region in the past month, none of them fatal. Increased public awareness and a drop in the deer-mouse population may have helped stem the spread of the disease. But researchers fear that cold weather will cause mice to seek shelter inside houses, exposing people once again. So a major multilingual public-information campaign, set in motion in the spring, will continue. And in January Army scientists will begin testing...