Word: toye
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...hundreds of dollars of their incomes. You can improve your standard of living in far safer ways with that kind of cash. A business-owner in New York City started a program over the holidays with this idea in mind. He offered people a $100 gift-certificate to a toy store for each firearm they turned in to the 34th Precinct. Since then, the "Toys-for-Guns" program has been instituted all over the country with widespread corporate support. Still, one man in New York told ABC News that yes, he had turned in "a few" handguns, but that...
...nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...
...Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...
SeaStar won't be merely a scientific toy. Because fish love to feast on phytoplankton, the satellite will be pinpointing places where fishing boats might come away with a big haul. Fishermen will be able to get the tips through direct radio links to SeaStar...
Trapped in toy basketball...