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Six weeks rapidly turned into six months as I navigated through page after page of tricky self-contradicting forms and a bureaucracy with absolutely no interest in issuing any gun permits to anyone in Jersey City. This was the biggest hurdle yet, and the temptation to smuggle in a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

None of this makes it any easier for President Bill Clinton in his desperate quest to pull the two sides together. Two weeks ago, Clinton laid out for the Israelis and Palestinians a set of parameters for restarting talks. Israel gave a guarded "yes, but." Diplomatic sources say that last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Work Of Assassins | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Currently, Guilford Pharmaceuticals in Baltimore, Md., and Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are collaborating on a synthetic neurotrophic compound that can be taken orally and then travels to the brain, where it bonds with proteins in dopamine neurons. The tricky part is that most trophic molecules are too big to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Parkinson's Disease: Lubricating Gummed-Up Brains | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

But Cheney's path has obvious perils. Many accomplished couples, including members of Congress, navigate this tricky terrain, a place where one spouse's success can create conflicts of interest for the other. But the stakes are higher at the top. When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted an $8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lynne Cheney: Is A Career A Conflict? | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Still, the circumstantial link will spur demands for further scientific inquiries. And the matter becomes more complicated for NATO by the fact that the country spearheading the demand for answers - Italy, which has lost six of its soldiers - also happens to be the one providing the bulk of the troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Depleted Uranium Killing More Than Just Enemy Tanks? | 1/9/2001 | See Source »

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