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...used to track dangerous pathogens, Wintemute and his associates at U.C. Davis seek out patterns and trends in the data that federal and state governments keep on firearms: types of guns sold, who buys and sells them and the background of shooters and victims alike. Wintemute's 1994 study Ring of Fire, for example, takes a hard look at gunmakers around Los Angeles. It has been hailed as a major indictment of the cheapie pistols known as "Saturday-night specials," the weapons of choice of inner-city gangs. The California effort to impose tough new regulations to control their manufacture...
Wintemute took a particular interest in Saturday-night specials, favorite "starter" guns because of their low price (as little as $25), easy availability and compact size. He found that their chief makers--the companies mentioned in Ring of Fire--did not exist until after 1968, when Congress, reacting to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, banned handgun imports but did not prohibit domestic manufacture. The study showed that the guns were dangerous not just to people who found themselves looking down their barrels but also to their owners. The guns often misfired, were inaccurate and, lacking...
SIHL operations are concentrated in three major areas: infrastructure, automobile parts and cigarettes. About half of 1997 earnings are expected to come from such things as the toll highway leading from Hongqiao international airport to Shanghai's inner ring road, and the North-to-South Elevated Expressway cutting through downtown. About 20% to 30% will derive from a joint venture that makes chassis, front suspensions, rear axles, steering and shock absorbers for the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. The third revenue stream is produced by Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., a Hong Kong manufacturer of the popular Double Happiness cigarettes, which last...
...myself and soon we're in the boxing office, a cramped room that's dominated by gloves, headgear and boxing bags of all types. In a gentle voice Rawson tells me about how he grew up in east Boston, fast-forwarding almost immediately to his first night in the ring: he won all four fights and received a watch for his troubles-a watch he still has. As the victory watches started to pile up, he sent them off to aunts, uncles and cousins-"Sometimes I'd ask for a lady's watch," he tells...
...when it enjoyed varsity standing. I ask him why the sport was relegated to club status, but he's caught up in a nostalgic thought about a return to legitimacy. "If the University would just okay it," he trails off, referring to intercollegiate boxing. "We have the ropes, the ring-it's all ready...