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...personal collection without subjecting the buyer to the kind of criminal background check that a licensed dealer would have to invoke if selling exactly the same gun. This loophole has turned flea markets and gun shows--and the Internet--into Quick Marts for anyone needing an untraceable handgun. Guns remain exempt from consumer-product safety regulations, although those rules apply to toy guns. And penalties for crooked dealers still fail to recognize the societal costs of illegal gun sales. Says David M. Kennedy, a Harvard expert on gun commerce: "You can get more time for selling crack on a street...
Still, since today's greenhouse gases will remain in the atmosphere for a century even if all further emissions are cut off immediately, environmentalists are growing increasingly concerned that their window of opportunity to slow down warming is slamming shut. Says Michael Oppenheimer, the Environmental Defense Fund's chief scientist: "The world is already committed to a significant level of warming, no matter what...
...learned a lot: that adventure racing is more fun than difficult and frightening; so I'll enter my first race in the fall. I also grasped certain truths (which may be evident to others): if you begin an endeavor with a sound strategy, and if you remain flexible, adaptable and patient, you will succeed. If you consistently respect, support and rely on teammates, you are better off than you would be alone. You are capable of far more than you realize and can transform the unknown you fear into the known you control and enjoy. Adventure offsites--like condoms...
...customer-service department. Agents will conduct face-to-face exams on an estimated 0.38% of all individual income-tax returns this year, down from 0.51% in 1998 and 0.65% in 1997. While audits are down across the board, those with high incomes or who file business schedules remain the most frequently targeted groups...
After days of negotiations in Congress over tax reform legislation, many of the education tax relief provisions contained within the original Senate and House versions of the bills will remain in tact...