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...Price Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told...
...once sick the entire year. Somehow as a sophomore I dodged every sneeze-induced shotgun blast of tainted phlegm from every runny nose in every lecture hall. I was invincible. At the end of this glorious, deep-breathing year, being once again of sound mind and body, I half-heartedly tried to convince myself that these non-scientifically sanctioned herbs and spices were not responsible for my well-being. Echinacea’s correlation with inexplicable health by no means implied causation, right? Thus, when the big bottle of meanies ran out, I neglected to replace it?...
...rigorously evaluates its employees, ranking each on a descending 1-to-5 scale; fives get fired first. But performance didn't seem to matter this time. "The first guy in my department to go was the second highest rated on the team," says Davidson. "It was more like a shotgun blast, or a lottery...
...baby boomers are demanding something more elaborate for themselves and their dearly departed. In Florida, retired golfers are having their cremated remains scattered on putting greens. Canuck's Sportsman's Memorials Inc., based in Des Moines, Iowa, packs the ashes of duck- and pheasant-hunting enthusiasts into shotgun shells. They are later fired into the air during a ceremony in the woods for family and friends. If you're an ocean lover, Eternal Reefs Inc. in Atlanta will place your ashes inside an artificial reef for $850 to $3,200. Celestis, a company based in Houston, will launch your ashes...
When I was a teenager growing up in Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...