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...gunrunning capital of the East Coast and reduce the hauls taken in by police from the streets, such as these found in Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun- control legislation last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should be enough...
TECHNOLOGY: Slight of Hand...
...small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin...
Famous Sports Alumnus: They've got Reggie Lewis. We've got Ted Donato, Don Sweeney and a few others. Ted, Don and Co. had great collegiate careers, but His Reggieness is a bona fide All-Star. Alumnus, slight edge...
...Lawn, an environmental engineer who works in Prince William Sound: "When I flew over the site in the Shetlands, I was astounded to see that the oil was not sticking to the beaches. It would roll up on the beach and then roll back down, leaving only a slight sheen. This oil acts very differently from ((Alaska's)) Prudhoe Bay crude...