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Globalization has brought Americans tech support from India, Chinese-made Christmas lights, T-shirts from Bangladesh and those inexpensive Aussie wines, but U.S. conservationists are sounding the alarm that global trade is a two-way street that threatens American wildlife - thanks to rising economic tides in Asia and the fast and easy import-export routes between China...
...wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, many gun control advocates are renewing calls for imposing tighter restrictions on firearms purchases. But the federal government, as it turns out, is having a hard enough time keeping up with current regulations...
...what it can do with the laws and procedures it is supposed to enforce." Giving ATF the resources it needs to enforce existing laws, says Helmke, should be something politicians on both sides of the aisle in Congress can agree on. "We're hopeful," says Helmke, "that post-Virginia Tech this might be an area the elected officials can focus...
...Still, there is no reason to believe that the gun dealers who sold Virginia tech shooter Seung Hui Cho the two handguns he used in the killings were in violation of any existing law. But congressman Mike Castle (R-Del.), a moderate Republican who penned the now-lapsed Assault Weapons Ban, thinks that making sure existing laws are enforced may be the most gun-control advocates can hope for in the current political environment. After the Virginia Tech shootings, even the Democrats that now control Congress didn't seem to have much stomach for a gun-control debate that many...
...began dating after meeting during freshman orientation—were fake-married. “We really wanted to demonstrate some of the great things about Korean culture in small, warm ceremony,” Yan said. “Especially in the wake of the V-Tech incident, we thought it was important to remind people that there is more to our culture.” “Ha Yan is our favorite tutor,” Zlatinova said. “She just asked us one day in the dining hall a few months...