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...mined Stevie Wonder for songs like Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Jesus, I'm Yours. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo's promise that he would actually deport 20 million illegal immigrants seemed to have toxic allure for many of the alleged 30,000 Republicans assembled. Congressman Duncan Hunter gave away a Ruger shotgun and seemed ready to declare war on China...
...beaten, urinated on, covered in petrol and photographed over a nine-hour period before she escaped. In 1996, police witness Christopher Crean, who had testified against Black Power members who'd taken part in a violent brawl, was murdered in front of his wife and children when a shotgun was fired through his front door as he answered it. These and similar crimes prompted governments to pass laws allowing witnesses to testify in secret and giving police greater power to seize the proceeds of crime...
Rebuilding a city isn't just about clearing away the wreckage and starting over from scratch - at least not when there are pieces worth saving. That's especially true in New Orleans, where many Creole townhouses and shotgun homes were built from centuries-old cypress native to the region and dense oak boards pulled from the sides of barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques...
...years you are: Barefoot and pregnant in Arkansas, living in a shotgun shack...
...February 14, 2001: Elmira, New York A high schools student's plans for a school shooting are foiled after students bring the fact that he had weapons on him to a teacher's attention. He carried 14 pipe bombs, three smaller bombs, a propane tank, a sawed-off shotgun, and a .22 caliber pistol into the school by a duffel bag and also a book bag full of ammunition. On December 17, 2001, Jeremy he is sentenced to 8 1/2 years...