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...spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown of families. "We're a small enough town so that every death still really hurts," says Jeffrey Jentzen, the county medical examiner, who has watched the carnage rise over the years. Sometime in the late 1980s, about the time that crack hit town, Milwaukee joined the long list of U.S. cities where residents think twice before honking at strangers. "I don't give people the finger from...
...Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, * Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
That leaves many frightened people wondering whether safety resides with the other extreme: arm everyone, and scare the criminals as much as the citizenry. In his essay "A Nation of Cowards" in The Public Interest, lawyer Jeffrey Snyder argues that individual dignity depends on a willingness to fight back against crime. Owning a gun, and mastering its use, becomes a duty of citizenship; an armed society becomes a safer one. In a community like Wichita, Kansas, where drive-by shootings hit a record high this year and local legislators are debating tighter gun laws, pro-gun activists argue that instead...
Although whether Hubble is completely fixed won't be known until about two months of tests are finished, the crew was confident and euphoric. Said Jeffrey Hoffman after he and Story Musgrave had installed a replacement for Hubble's Wide Field/Planetary Camera: "We've got basically a new telescope up there. It's going to be exciting for the astronomical community and for the whole world to see what Hubble really can do with a good set of eyeballs...
After more than 150 parachute jumps, a hike up New Hampshire's Mt. Washington on skis, three previous space flights and other experiences in free-fall, Dr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and Harvard astrophysics Ph.D. (1971), was ready last week when he stepped into space to repair one of the world's most expensive telescopes...