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...introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy to his successor. "I don't see any reason at all why anyone should have a handgun," he says...
...example, CPK serves such delicacies as Peking Duck Pizza and Rosemary Chicken Potato Pizza...
When I was growing up, popular culture didn't give me much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...
Thankfully, the number of Asian American writers in the artistic community is growing constantly, and the media is finally beginning to produce more positive images of Asians. Nevertheless, Long Duck Dong's damage has been done; The image of Asian Americans as math/science types has been etched into the popular psyche. Even at Harvard, Sensitivity Central, my teachers and classmates still find it impossible to believe I'm not a premed...
...flywheels to door handles, and are charged with coming up with new ways of thinking about such things as prices, quality and worldwide purchasing. Says Bob Burkhart, a senior purchasing executive delegated by Smith to oversee the creativity groups: "Whenever we used to see a roadblock, we'd hide, duck or find a way to do other things and not get beat up. Now our youngest people are being empowered to challenge the status...