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...amazed at how easily the blade sliced through the metal. Smoothing the end with a metal file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear the room," he says. Returning the gun to the canvas bag, he hurried back to his room, paused briefly to consider a hiding place, and then slid the weapon under...
...fourth grade, shortly after he got his first BB gun. "I guess I shot a lot of animals," he says sheepishly. Now he totes a sawed-off, 20-gauge, pump-action shotgun he bought for $20 last January from a 16-year-old friend. "The grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger...
...monthly rate of inflation has dropped in one year from 90% to 1.7%. Unless the rival ethnic communities can turn their present dialogue of the deaf into real cooperation, however, Estonia may yet succumb to the fever of nationalism that has so much of Europe in its grip...
Levie outlined ways for the city to attract "better selected tourists," and to keep "a better grip on them" while they are in the city...
Unending war has become an occupation force, seizing village after village of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its vicious grip. Across trenches and rubble- strewn no-man's-lands reminiscent of World War I, Bosnian and Serb soldiers blaze away on dozens of small battlefields. TIME photographer James Nachtwey spent the past two weeks on one of those battlefields, between Brcko and adjacent Muslim hamlets in northern Bosnia...