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...trips by bringing the kids along. Says a road-weary mom: "Sometimes it takes so much effort to get where we're going that it's more like a change of venue than a vacation." But it doesn't have to be that way. This summer, thanks to a raft of online advice, kid-centered guidebooks and nifty new products, taking the kids is easier than it's ever been. Consider adopting some of these tips on how to make your family vacation a dream--or at least not a nightmare...
Strong gun control. Limited gun control. Say good-bye to any change in gun control in the near future. By a 280-to-147 vote Friday, the House of Representatives decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative...
...grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they can. They have a raft of gun control amendments they want the Senate to keep voting up or down...
...Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru to Polynesia on the wooden raft Kon-Tiki to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands by sea and colonized them...
...boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship for a raft on the open sea. "That boat was my only survival," she said. "If it went down, I went down...