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Still, some manufacturers, like Florida-based Point Blank Body Armor Inc., make it their policy to provide gear only to licensed security, law-enforcement, corrections and military personnel. "We certainly would endorse and support any efforts to pass laws with tighter controls or limit body armor falling in the hands of people who should not have it," says Michael Foreman, senior vice president of sales for Point Blank and a 35-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. But the fact is, laws against civilian use and purchase are sparse and often difficult to enforce...
...country were asking for a time out, arguing that the marriage activists had pushed too fast and too hard - and that the backlash in more conservative states would undo any progress enjoyed in places like San Francisco or Boston. "Marriage was never our issue," one activist from south Florida told TIME last November. "It was thrust upon us by the other side, and they've done a very good job of beating us up over...
...Joseph talks, you can practically feel the energy rising. This is still Florida; the sun is still shining; how clear is your vision? Gina, a special-ed teacher, and her husband Kurt, a contractor, have already missed out on two houses because they didn't bid fast enough. "Now it's every man for himself," Kurt says. "You have to play fair, put in a decent price." And then, just maybe, there will be rewards for the patient and prudent. "Someone else's loss," he says, "is another's blessing...
...Ansley Hayes, Dallas Phyllis Diller. I want us to do a road comedy together. And she drives. It would be called Crazy Grandma at the Wheel, and I would be a next-door neighbor she kidnaps because she's gotta get money to put down on a house in Florida. At the very end, we hold hands and we drive off a cliff. And there's a lot of sex scenes for both...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had been sentenced to eleven months in prison for the videotaping of underage girls. Francis was not sentenced for any crime. He served 35 days in jail in Florida for contempt and eleven months in jail in Reno, Nevada after being denied bail while awaiting trial on Federal tax evasion charges, regarding which he denies any wrongdoing...