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...sound of my own swallowing rocked my head like a bullhorn when we arrived at our destination. So, one can imagine how my fragile equilibrium—and my will to live—were jolted when suddenly a noise as sharp and as a loud as a gunshot rang...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gunning for a Good Time | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...fact, a gunshot...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gunning for a Good Time | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

Taser enthusiasts argue that even if a few dozen deaths could be attributed to the stun gun, that's a tiny fraction of the 30,000 or so Americans who die from gunshot wounds each year. "What our weapon does is highly unpleasant," concedes Taser CEO Rick Smith, "but it can save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stun Guns For Everyone | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...Land between their lines, a Bosnian (Branko Djuric) and a Serb (Rene Bitorajac) are trapped in a trench, exchanging anger and the occasional gunshot. They are aware that the Serbs have booby-trapped one of the dead bodies in their refuge with a spring-loaded bomb. If he is moved, it will explode. But the inert soldier (Filip Sovagovic) is not dead. Now we have a situation--and the makings of a very good movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Victory In The Trenches | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...Violent crime, meanwhile, is soaring. A nurse at Jalalabad's hospital says the number of gunshot victims has risen sharply since the Taliban left. That the hospital functions at all is a tribute to its staff: nobody has been paid in six months. Among the eight patients in one of the trauma wards are an 18-year-old whose face was crushed when a U.S. bomb destroyed his house, a 10-year-old boy shot by a stray bullet and an angry shepherd named Khan. He says that when he was tending his sheep last week, 25 armed men working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carjackings, Shoot-outs and Banditry | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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