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...applaud TIME for featuring victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy on the cover [April 30]. You reminded us that the lives taken were real. Some of the photos hinted at extracurricular interests; others were obviously school, military or formal photographs. All were pictures of promise. The images of Cho Seung-Hui were disturbing and indicative of the evil in the world. But the faces staring at me from your cover, while heartbreaking, were reminders of the love and promise that abound. Thank you for showing them to us. Christopher Yodice, LEVITTOWN, NEW YORK...
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...