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...final product. The Maryland mother of three says she "hadn't organized anything more complicated than a car pool" until gun violence ripped into her family. On Aug. 20, 1998, Price's son John, 13, was accidentally killed by a 9-year-old neighbor boy wielding a 9-mm Luger pistol that he had found in his home. Since that day, Price and her husband John have put themselves on the front lines of the war over gun safety...
...only a misdemeanor to leave a loaded gun accessible to a child. She started attending gun-control rallies and was host at meetings in her home. After she showed up with a TV news crew at a local Republican fund raiser that was raffling off a 9-mm handgun, Price gained the attention of other local media and legislators...
...Smith & Wesson was negotiating its safer-handguns deal with the Clinton Administration, the largest U.S. gunmaker was also secretly negotiating with a former Alexandria, Ohio, police sergeant who had discovered a potentially deadly design flaw in its semiautomatic pistols. Jeff Perry said he contacted the gunmaker after his 9-mm unexpectedly went off during a firearms-training session. The company's safety manuals for the gun say that if the user removes the magazine from the gun, it cannot fire even if a round is left in the chamber. However, Perry found that if slight pressure...
MEDICAL MANTRA While it's no surprise that transcendental meditation reduces stress, researchers now show that using TM to reach a higher state of consciousness may help unclog arteries. African Americans with high blood pressure who practiced meditation for six months saw a .098-mm decrease in the fatty buildup in arterial walls, compared with an increase of .054 mm among folks who simply tried to change their diet and lifestyle. Getting results takes some effort. First you need to learn how to meditate, which can take hours, and then you should do it for 20 minutes each morning...
...Both installations are shot in 16 mm film, transferred to laser disc and projected on white walls in dark rooms. Chances are good you'll stumble into the pieces somewhere in the midst of their looped tracks, like walking into a movie theater half-way through and staying on to watch the first half of the next showing. Catching up is just a matter of patience. Just the same, "Crawl Space" thrives on its own ability to elude, to string together transitional shots that only pretend to be taking us somewhere, so that the dreadful lurks just out of reach...