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Campaigning in Wisconsin over the Fourth of July holiday, John Kerry stopped by the Gunslick Trap Club in Holmen, snapped up a Beretta 12-gauge shotgun and coolly dispatched 17 of 25 clay pigeons. "I'm just doing what I normally do," Kerry told reporters. But Kerry supporters see their candidate's hunting skills as a shield against the National Rifle Association, which in 2000 gave the Bush campaign nearly $92,000 and spent more than $2 million helping the G.O.P. ticket attack Al Gore. Of late, the N.R.A. has been uncharacteristically quiet. The lobby has given the Bush ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Battle Ahead | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...artist in society, the relationship between religious experience and human endeavors, the misuse of religion for the sake of power and the importance of trying to lead a moral life. Wisely putting the needs of good art before the needs of religious instruction, Tezuka avoids the didactical trap of American religious comics. Using his unbeatable powers of the comic arts, he keeps the story moving at a clip while also managing to create two complex and flawed heroes and getting across the lessons of Buddhism. That he does all of this with a seriousness of purpose tempered by a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Again | 7/17/2004 | See Source »

...TOURIST TRAP...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Felipe’s In, Poetry Out for Square Shops | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...next step in their research, according to Lukin and André, would be to trap light in all directions and to manipulate and interact trapped light pulses...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman and Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors Make Headlines in a Year of Discovery | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Fourth, personal responsibility is a trap. The argument is startlingly similar to the tobacco industry's efforts to stave off legislative and regulatory interventions. The nation tolerated personal-responsibility arguments from Big Tobacco for decades, with disastrous results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Are You Responsible for Your Own Weight? | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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