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After Smith & Wesson confirmed the problem, it offered Perry $1,400 if he would sign a nondisclosure agreement; Perry also wanted a safety notification sent to gun owners. When the company upped the offer to "nearly $30,000," said Perry, he agreed and quit talking, except to acknowledge that he got an "appreciation fee." James Gannalo, a police ballistics expert, found the same problem when he tested several Smith & Wesson models for TIME. "It's a threat," he said, "because hand tension could cause the gun to fire when [the handler] believed it was safe." Smith & Wesson declined comment...
...police report, but the high court acquitted the alleged rapists. One judge said simply that he did not believe upper-caste men could commit a crime so heinous. Srivastava was so shaken that she helped Bhanwari file an appeal in the Supreme Court--it is still pending--and later quit her job. "I realized I couldn't spend my life writing reports that would simply gather dust," she says. After hearing of Bhanwari's ordeal, Srivastava started lobbying the Rajasthan government to toughen police accountability. She spearheaded a successful drive to ban sexual harassment in the workplace...
...least a few real-live listeners, Dan Schulz and Scott Wirkus broadcast the first Dan & Scott Show from the basement of an empty retirement home in Jackson, Wis. It was April Fools' Day, 1996, and Schulz and Wirkus, then 31 and 30, had maxed out their credit cards, quit their jobs at an ad agency and printing plant, and moved in to produce an Internet radio show...
...response to this new policy, Bast and other editors of the weeklies have quit, advertisers have pulled out and readers have asked their names be taken off of mailing lists. Despite these repercussions, the weeklies have shown no signs of retracting their narrow-minded policies...
Parents who smoke can be certain that antitobacco lectures will fall on deaf ears. If you don't want your kid to smoke, you have to quit. Seventy-five percent of the 4 million teen smokers come from homes where a parent smokes--a reminder that kids look to their parents as role models, for better or for worse...