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...buildings. He then took a .30-.30 rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven schoolmates and killing two, Lydia Kaye Dew, 17, and Christina Menefee, 16, a girl he once dated. He was subdued by assistant principal Joel Myrick, who pulled a .45-cal. pistol from his car and ordered the gunman to the ground. "Mr. Myrick," said Woodham, "I was the guy who gave you the discount on the pizza the other night." Woodham had been hoping to make the assistant manager's program at the local Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI GOTHIC | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...beginning of its life, the "Pistol Star" (so named for the peculiar shape of its surrounding nebula) was 200 times more massive than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: The Universe's Big Gun | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...middle age, "Pistol Star" is still generating 10 million times more energy than our sun, radiating more in six seconds than the sun does in a year. UCLA scientists, who are charged with interpreting the pictures, say that guarantees the Pistol Star a brilliant death a few million years from now, in a massive supernova. More like a Rock Star, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: The Universe's Big Gun | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm" under the final policy, a pilot convicted of domestic abuse could no longer carry the requisite 9-mm pistol--and thus could no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...victim was a woman in her late 60s or early 70s who, in despair, had pointed a pistol at her chest and pulled the trigger. As she lay in the emergency room of a small hospital in California's Central Valley, her condition presented no great medical challenge; it was fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DROP YOUR GUNS! | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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