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...full-size float plane hangs from the ceiling, and you can hang from a rock-climbing wall or test your new bow on the archery range. And you want a bass outfit? There are 37,000 fishing items, including $800 reels. Need a $2,500 Beretta shotgun? There are several to choose from...
...years ago for quick Gulf access. But quick access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east of New Orleans to form a superchannel that points like a shotgun at the city's low-income, low-elevation Ninth Ward. Hurricanes merely pull the trigger. Both Katrina and Rita brought storm surges from the Gulf and Lake Pontchartrain that crashed unimpeded, blasted past the levee and sank the district...
Noero thinks of what might have happened to her apartment at Willow Street and Nashville Avenue, a blue-gray shotgun house that stands not on a foundation, but stilts. Before Katrina, there had been a small front stoop for sitting, a leaky roof, worn wood floors, and five homeless cats, she said. She hasn’t seen anything of it since she left...
...weapons instructor. His passengers were two former British soldiers, Stef Surette and Mark (who did not want his surname used). The middle vehicle was the company's heavily armored Mercedes, used for transporting VIPs. It held two former British soldiers: Simon Merry at the wheel, and Ian Harris riding shotgun. Bringing up the rear of the convoy was Ahmelman, driving a second BMW; with him were James "Jay" Hunt, a former U.S. Army Ranger, and Allan "Johnno" Johnson, the team leader and an ex-British Army medic. Each man had an arc of responsibility to watch and fire into...
...welcome to Italy-on-the-Rhine. In the end, Germany will have a government. But it won't be a lasting one because whatever the combination, it will be a shotgun marriage based not on affinity, but desperation. Divorce will be lurking not that far down the road, and so will a new election...