Word: detach
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...month. Since parents don't watch over their guns very well, the data suggest stricter laws will reduce kids' access to guns, reduce the number of kids who use guns and ultimately save lives. I encourage Oppenheim and Taub not to fall back on standard pro-gun rhetoric, detach from emotion and look at the facts and, as concerned citizens, recognize that fewer guns are better for America...
...encourage Oppenheim and Taub not to fall back on standard pro-gun rhetoric, detach from emotion and look at the facts and, as concerned citizens, recognize that fewer guns are better for America...
...Dylan, a legend himself, declared that Elvis "steps from the pages" of the predecessor to this book, Last Train to Memphis, and much the same can be said of this one. The most impressive quality of this book is Guralnick's ability to depict Elvis' life and detach the real person, a flawed yet well-intentioned human being, from the frozen images that make up his legend. The main flaw of this book is not one of flawed research but of excessive enthusiasm; he tells the reader more of Elvis' "sad story" than he or she may want to know...
Admittedly, if Congress did impeach Clinton, it might restore a sense of moral rectitude to the office; it might set a clear and valuable standard for the behavior we expect from elected officials at all levels of government. But it would also further detach Americans from Washington by making voters feel that their only tie to power--their votes--could be nullified in fuzzy circumstances by another, intensely partisan branch of government...
...announced it will ship hardware next month that plays MP3 recordings. The $199 device, called Rio, is as small as a deck of cards and plugs into your PC, where you can fill it up with an hour's worth of tunes that you've downloaded. Then you can detach it and take it anywhere...