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...protection," says the lanky 18-year-old, who wears three gold earrings and favors a black baseball cap emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. "I don't know why, but stuff just started getting hectic, real rough. I mean you can get jumped for no reason." The small, .25-cal. Raven pistol, which he bought from a friend, fit snugly in the pocket of his winter vest. He even took it along to his telemarketing job after work, where he earns $6.50 an hour manning the phones. He says, "If people know you have a gun, they just don't mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...Eisenhower Administration, spawning an entire bureaucracy and a web of government relocation sites situated around the capital in what became known as the Federal Arc. Each year the government conducted elaborate exercises in which thousands of officials relocated in ( mock nuclear attacks. Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Raven Rock, the 265,000-sq.-ft. "Underground Pentagon" near Gettysburg, Pa., code-named "Site R," or at Mount Weather, a bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doomsday Blueprints | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

There's a talent show one night, in whichfirst-years applaud their gifted classmates whocan play guitar, sing and even recite "The Raven"from memory. But while this is Harvard, there willstill be crummy acts. Which will be refreshing,since this is Harvard...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

Absurdly easy to buy, guns become a teenage consumer's accessory -- a Raven P-25 pistol or a Smith & Wesson .38, like the one Sumpter allegedly used. That gun was stolen from the car of a campus police officer in New Jersey, police said. "Around here," James Sinkler says, "kids carry guns like other people carry cigarettes." Taking a life in medieval England was the King's prerogative. Now every kid a king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Childhood's End | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...There was a point when I thought Raven was going to take over my life," Malone told Time, describing his work. "After I hung up the phone, I had to take a shower because I felt so dirty...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

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