Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Little Earthquakes remains a virtual apocalypse of emotion, despite the recent trends of radio stations to overplay "Silent All These Years." Is Tori Amos finally starting to make peace with the demons that drove her to create painfully honest pieces such as Earthquake's "Me and a Gun," which was based on her experience with rape? If she is, are her musical talents strong enough to substitute for the lack of soul-searching--or at least the lessening of it--in her songs...
...million: Number of students Grades 6 to 12 who took a gun to school this year...
...have an evidence problem eerily reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson case. At issue is a single human hair, roots intact, that was found in a knit cap wrapped around a .38-cal. revolver connected with the murder. Ballistic tests suggest that the bullet that killed Cosby came from that gun, and DNA testing links the hair to MIKAIL MARKHASEV. One problem: when the L.A.P.D.'s lab technicians inspected the cap after it was found in March 1997, they found only "shed" hairs without roots; reliable DNA testing requires the root. Nine months later, after it became clear that the case...
...husky blond kid who says he has been drug free for 17 days, is fresh out of jail for stealing a handgun he planned to sell for drug cash. The gun belonged to his girlfriend's father, who happened to be a deputy sheriff. "How dumb can you get?" Tom asks. After flashing a driver's license photo to show how much thinner he was in his meth days, Tom effuses about his newfound love of Christ. A few minutes later he reaches into his jeans jacket and pulls out a scorched, homemade glass crank pipe...
...spot in this rich agricultural and fishing area might spare him the hardships of a famine ushered in with the new millennium, and he's ordering gold coins and laying in food in bulk just to be sure. He's also buying weapons, adding regularly to his growing gun collection. In the coming months, says May, more and more Americans are going to realize that "we aren't going to make the deadline...