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...friend's nine-year-old son recently returned, elated, after a weekend with a classmate and his family. "Guess what, Mom?" he crowed. He and his buddy had eaten loads of junk, dodged two bedtimes and, best of all, played with BB guns and pocketknives. His mother, an admitted health and safety nut, was shocked. "These are such nice people," she said. "I can't believe they let my kid run wild without giving me the chance to say no--and believe me, I would have...
...hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
...trying on his black leather trench coat, with his sawed-off shotgun hidden underneath: "They didn't even know it was there." Once, Harris recalls, his mother saw him carrying a gym bags with a gun handle sticking out of the zipper. She assumed it was his BB gun. Every day Klebold and Harris went to school, sat in class, had lunch with their schoolmates, worked with their teachers and plotted their slaughter. People fell for every lie. "I could convince them that I'm going to climb Mount Everest, or I have a twin brother growing...
...launch a flurry of flak, hoping to down a warplane and deliver a live pilot to Saddam. "If you're looking at the right place at the right time, you can see the muzzles flash," says Captain Brian Baldwin, an F-15 pilot. "They're looking for the golden BB...
BLUE-SKY INVESTING Your mutual-fund manager may start betting on the weather, literally. This month two energy firms are expected to issue some $100 million in "weather bonds," whose returns are based solely on average temperatures. These new bonds, rated in the BB range, allow weather-sensitive businesses--utilities, ski resorts--to hedge against losses caused by extreme temperatures. If Mother Nature behaves, holders can expect 10% to 30% returns; but a mild winter or scorching summer could melt profits and principal. On another front, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started trading weather futures in September. Along with pork bellies...