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...success--with one loophole. If Georgia Bureau of Investigation phones are down for one business day, any applicant can get a gun--no questions asked. When a two-day blizzard shut down Atlanta last month, GBI director Nix arranged for stranded phone operators to be driven in by four-wheel drives. During that period, 24 would-be purchasers turned out to be convicted felons...
...York over the weekend. TIME's Andy Danzo reports: "This storm was very strong and it has created some problems. Schools and colleges are closed, which doesn't usually happen. The main roads have been cleared, but side streets and rural roads are problematic. Officials have asked people with four-wheel drive vehicles to volunteer to deliver supplies and medicine to people who are snowed in. We haven't received any reports of deaths or serious injuries. Residents are pretty much used to this kind of inconvenience and are taking it with grudging good humor. And bracing for another season...
...died two days later of extensive hemorrhaging, Sister Floralba was already running a high fever. She was treated at the hospital, but when her condition worsened, three of her best friends -- Sister Dinarosa, Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, 64, and Sister Danielangela Sorti, 47 -- put her in the back of their four-wheel drive car and drove her 50 miles west to the clinic in the town of Mosango. She was unconscious when they arrived; the sisters stayed at her bedside all night, praying and soothing and holding her arm so the intravenous drip would stay in place. Sister Floralba died within...
...irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned to be wary...
...tactics. At a large mall featuring a food outlet, a pharmacy and a liquor store with Korean- language signs, men with pump shotguns and high-powered pistols defended their businesses. A barricade of shopping carts was arranged in the parking lot, which was patrolled by armed Koreans in a four-wheel vehicle. As a pair of looters approached the mall, the guards fired 12-gauge rounds into the air to chase them away. Elsewhere a security guard was killed defending a Korean- owned store from attack...