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...away. Under a nationwide system they would be prevented from making the buy in another state with no waiting period. But few criminals get their guns from ordinary shops. All over America, illicit gunrunners supply the streets. As he fills out the forms to buy a Beretta at the Maryland Small Arms Range in Upper Marlboro, customer Gary Roland complains that black-market buyers have a network all their own. "It's easier to get a firearm delivered in the Washington area than it is to get a pizza...
...other teams have turned in surprising performances thus far. Cornell, picked as high as third in some preseason publications, stands at 1-3 under new coach Al Walker after opening its season with 50-point losses to Maryland and Syracuse and a 40-point loss to St. Louis. (St. Louis...
...virus was carried by wild deer mice, and residents of the Southwest and West began taking special precautions to minimize their contact with the rodents. Finally, just over a week ago, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Army Medical Research Institute at Fort Detrick, Maryland, reported that both institutions had independently isolated the virus and grown it under laboratory conditions -- a major step toward creating diagnostic tests and vaccines...
Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple -- he a white Jew, she a black Baptist -- were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so the ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord...
...major airlines find themselves wedged between newly intractable unions and a group of low-cost, no-frills competitors, like Southwest Airlines, which have slashed both costs and ticket prices. For example, Southwest's round-trip fare from Baltimore, Maryland, to Los Angeles is $209; an American ticket is $418. So profitable is Southwest ($73 million in 1992) that last week it ordered 63 new Boeing 737 airplanes, a rare event for the industry. A new entry called Eastwind, for example, will offer rock-bottom fares in January to specific cities and last week announced it will serve Atlanta...