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...week on the piracy of U.S.-made goods, including movies, music and computer software. The overture, which did not mention any specific proposals, came less than a week after Washington slapped stiff tariffs on Chinese products worth more than $1 billion. The levies are due to take effect on Feb...
...year ago, on Feb. 28, Brady became law. Its five-day waiting period allows local law-enforcement authorities time to perform the background check that is intended to weed out felons and others who are denied handguns. The law applied immediately to the 30 states that had no similar regulations on the books and prompted others to put in place computer checks that permit a yes or no answer within minutes, sparing buyers the five-day wait...
...ripe for the plucking, why are so many prominent Republicans taking a pass? Money, mainly: the belief that it takes at least $20 million just to get into the game, since the first 24 primaries have been packed into five weeks in early 1996, starting with New Hampshire on Feb...
...Feb. 26, 1993, Yousef and Salameh put their bomb in a van and drove it to the basement of the World Trade Center. The eventual explosion killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Within days the main suspects in the bombing were arrested--except for Yousef, who, using the name Abdul Basit, escaped on a plane to Pakistan just hours after the explosion. Says Dwyer: ``He masterminded every detail of the plot, including his own escape, which he pulled off more expeditiously than anyone else.'' Yousef's capture was the culmination of one of the most extensive...
...otherwise excellent article on clinical depression by Lana Israel ("Students Confront Clinical Despair," feature story, Feb. 8, 1995) contains three issues that could use clarification...