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...phone with my brother. Somebody came down the aisle and put a shotgun to the back of my head and said put your hands on the seat in front of you. I got my cell phone karate chopped out of my hand. Then I realized it was an official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: "I Never Heard the Word 'Bomb'" | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...quicker for developers to rip an old house down," says Brett Zamore, 34, who renovated a house built in the shotgun style--first used by African-American settlers in the early 1800s--for his Rice University grad-school thesis. "But houses like the shotgun have strengths and character" as well as the potential, he says, to be prototypes for responsible modern living--and for rebuilding hurricane-hit communities on the Gulf Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building on History: Call It A Son of a Shotgun | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...shotgun is smart. Take its ventilation. The house, perched above the ground on concrete-block piers, has doors in the front and back, windows in all rooms and wood-sheathed walls with no insulation. In a hot, humid clime like Houston's, that "allows air to continually circulate under the house and through the house," says Zamore. "This was the old way of getting AC, before electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building on History: Call It A Son of a Shotgun | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...shotgun inspired Zamore to develop the Shot Trot, a new design he touts as a historically relevant option for urban Southern communities. It's a crossbreed of the shotgun and the dog trot, a similar house with large side doors "so the interior feels like it's spilling outside," he says. The Shot Trot retains the shotgun's basic shape but replaces its railroad-style rooms with an airier, more open-plan layout. Just 16 ft. by 80 ft., it's perfect for narrow inner-city lots. And to cut cost and complexity, it uses standard component sizes, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building on History: Call It A Son of a Shotgun | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...Their mission: to retrieve the team's teal uniforms, a batch of video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team's tech guy carried a shotgun for protection. The military had taken over the facility, so to grab the supplies, Spero's crew had to duck under the few hundred rifles stored in the player's lounge. Pistols were strewn on the Ping-Pong table the players had used to pass time. Fortunately, the guns weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bees Buzz On | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

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