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...photographs of the victims were assembled and logged by assistant picture editor Richard Boeth. Nation head researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo spent most of nine weeks tracking the information on her computer. "I felt sadness for the wasted lives," she says, "and eventually an outrage that we allow so much unnecessary carnage by guns to occur...
...Nation editor Robert T. Zintl never forgot how LIFE magazine in 1969 drove home the human cost of the Viet Nam War by publishing photographs of 217 of the 242 American servicemen killed in a single week. Today far more Americans die each week from gunfire. Zintl proposed that TIME undertake a project to find out who the victims are and how they...
After graduating from Morehouse in 1979, Lee enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In his first year there, he had the temerity to parody D.W. Griffith's classic The Birth of a Nation in a 20- minute student film that took the great director to task for his portrayal of blacks in the Old South. He went on to win a student director's Academy Award for his thesis, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, about a Brooklyn barber who is torn between legitimacy and petty crime. After graduation, he began work...
...resolve the issue, new studies are under way. If they show that electric power is harmful, the effect could be devastating. Appliances and electronic equipment would have to be redesigned, many homes rewired and the nation's power-distribution system overhauled. Lawsuits, already on the rise, would surge as citizens filed claims to cover illness or property devaluation...
...most startling fact to emerge from the grim gallery on the preceding pages is the pervasiveness of suicides -- 216, or 47% of the week's total gun deaths. That proportion was actually below average: for at least three decades, suicides have generally accounted for more than half the nation's annual firearms fatalities. And while the overall U.S. suicide rate climbed from 11.9 to 12.8 per 100,000 people from 1980 to 1986, the percentage of suicides committed with guns has also been rising. In 1986, 64% of the men and 40% of the women who committed suicide shot themselves...