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Charles M. Stone Kissimmee, Fla...
Patricia Cole-Blaha Melbourne Beach, Fla...
...response to this surge of mindless cruelty has been a spectacular and, in the view of most police officers, alarming increase in the purchase of handguns by fearful citizens. A few police departments, such as those in Moore, Okla., Hialeah, Fla., and suburban New Orleans, have bowed to the inevitable and are holding classes in how to use guns. They hope to decrease the chances that the members of a family with a gun in the house will themselves be shot rather than wounding an intruder?odds that now run against the family about...
North Miami Beach, Fla...
Over opposition from 90% of the local senior high school science teachers, the seven-member Hillsborough County school board in Tampa, Fla., decided to require science classroom time for theories that challenge evolution. Says John Betz, associate professor of biology at the University of South Florida: "These people think evolution is essentially an immoral idea that gives rise to immoral conduct." Tampa's teachers "are incredulous," says Betz. "They can't believe it is happening...