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...N.R.A.'s atrocity stories typically omit details that might muddy its anti-ATF message. High on its list, for example, is the Randy Weaver case. In January 1991, ATF agents arrested Weaver for having sold two sawed-off shotguns to an ATF informant. Weaver was released on his own recognizance. When he failed to appear in court, a fugitive warrant was issued, and the case was passed to the U.S. Marshals Service, which caught up with Weaver in August 1992. A gunfight followed in which a deputy U.S. marshal and Weaver's 14-year-old son were killed...
...caught in the middle as the world's sole superpower and the world's most populous country snipe at each other. The list of recent incidents is considerable. Congress has introduced resolutions condemning China's "acts of aggression" in territorial disputes over the Spratly Islands. A CIA report last May said China might deserve sanctions because it sold ballistic-missile components to Iran and Pakistan. The U.S. is holding up China's application for membership in the World Trade Organization. And the U.S. recognition last week of Vietnam, China's neighbor and frequent enemy, fuels Beijing's fears that Washington...
Does any of this have any practical use? Perhaps. Beams of BEC atoms might be used to inscribe exquisitely small circuits onto the ultra-compact electronic chips. The atoms might also be put to work in ultra-precise atomic clocks. So far, the list of applications is not very long. But, says Oxford's Burnett, "it's like the beginnings of laser technology. It's a solution in search of a problem." Given the thousands of ways lasers are used today, that sounds pretty promising...
...deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy, Nine Months, he was also a reluctant nightly guest on David Letterman's Top 10 list. Least Popular Summer Drink No. 6: "Hugh Grant's Backseat Snapple...
...point out that the networks have already adopted on-air advisories to alert parents to inappropriate programming. Says Lynn McReynolds, vice president of media affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters: "The V chip won't be able to tell the difference between Terminator 2 and Schindler's List. We have problems with any technology that makes a blanket judgment about programming...