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...While it's true that many states are now more likely to share important information about certain mentally unstable people with the National Instant Criminal Background Check system, a good number of states are also pushing new laws to allow students and/or faculty to carry concealed weapons on campus...
...Meanwhile, even in states that do share mental health data, people can still buy guns without anyone checking the database at all. Under current federal law, unlicensed gun dealers at gun shows, for example, do not need to do a background check before they sell a weapon...
...waiters—probably of this disposition as a result of the hordes upon hordes of underage boys in matching ties—will surely remind a wistful francophile of Paris’ famously unfriendly garçons. All three groups, however, will achieve common understanding upon receiving their check: the prices at Daedalus would be more at home in the booming economies of the Old Country than in the mortgage crisis-crippled markets of the States.WagamamaFor those who traveled to the Continent, it might seem that there’s nothing worse than having to convert prices that seem...
Here's a little secret about inspecting an airplane: it only takes a few days to do it, and airlines routinely take planes out of service to check them without stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers or costing themselves tens of millions of dollars...
...based on the Tufts campus for 22 years. Doble, who graduated in 1911, received an honorary doctorate from Tufts in 1962. The school, which has an endowment of $1.4 billion, has only received one other gift over $100 million. Doble made his fortune by inventing a test used to check the safety and reliability of electrical utilities. When he died in 1969, Doble’s trust was valued at about $2 million. The trust was dissolved last fall when Doble Engineering Company sold for $319 million. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...