Word: virginia
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...only one use: to kill human beings. Others would institute a federally mandated waiting period, generally 15 days, before a qualified buyer could pick up his gun. (Under the bewildering mosaic of state laws now in effect, waiting periods range from 30 days in New York to zero in Virginia and Oregon, where Purdy bought his rifle.) Such a cooling-off period is thought necessary to allow time for a thorough background check that would disclose whether the would-be buyer is a felon or mentally ill. Such proposals have picked up powerful new allies: police chiefs who once opposed...
When he was called to active duty, he and his wife Alma put everything they owned into a brand-new 1963 navy blue Mercury Comet convertible and headed for Fort Eustis in Virginia. At a drive-in near Newport News, Va., the waitress came out and told them that because they were black, they would have to park across the street. Instead, they drove on. He can still recall every detail of the scene...
...Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson contended that toilet seats could transmit the AIDS virus and that the deadly disease would run rampant among heterosexuals...
Just ask E.D. Hirsch, whose educational philosophy mirrors Bacon's conclusion. Hirsch, an English professor at the University of Virginia, has enlisted the assistance of Joseph F. Kett and James Trefil to save our nation from cultural stagnation, assembling The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a collection of specific knowledge of, according to the weighty hardcover's bold subtitle, "What Every American Needs to Know." But there is no power in this book's knowledge...
...Crimson will open the tournament at 9 p.m. against Big East powerhouse Connecticut. After falling to Purdue on the road earlier last week, the Huskies defeated Virginia, 68-63, to improve their record...