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...faith. His study of 4,798 homes across the nation convinced him that guns prevented more crimes than they furthered. "Since the majority of people who own handguns are responsible, law-abiding citizens," says Kleck, "you end up regulating those people instead of the small percentage of people who commit most crimes...
...George Bush's performance was scathing and dismissive. "Bush confuses being tough with being smart," Clinton told me during the 1992 campaign, "especially on drugs. You can't get serious about crime without getting serious about drugs. Bush thinks locking up addicts instead of treating them before they commit crimes -- or failing to treat them once they're in prison, which is basically the case now -- is clever politics. That may be, but it certainly isn't sound policy, and the consequences of his cravenness could ruin...
...nationwide program like Dor Yeshorim recorded the genes of every citizen. (Even now, the federal government is attempting to map out the entire human genome.) Would you be comfortable knowing that all your genes are on record somewhere, from your predisposition for baldness to your likeliness to commit violent crimes (scientists have discovered a "crime gene" for males)? Already we are less disturbed than we should be that our privacy, from what we buy to whom we call, is recorded and often sold; in this era, knowledge is money...
...guidelines require that sting targets show a predisposition to commit a crime before an undercover operation begins. In this case, that may not be hard to prove. According to Justice Department officials, the kidney-stone machine sting is just a small part of a much broader investigation into widespread corruption at NASA. "There are major players and a lot of big dollars involved -- big dollars," says a law-enforcement source. Another source familiar with the case goes even further. "This is the biggest thing since Ill Wind," he says. Operation Ill Wind was the code name for the vast Pentagon...
...moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred him. "I can't plan for next Thursday," he says. "I'll make a note of it and put a question mark after it. I don't like to commit because you just don't know what's going to happen. It's got to do with 'the moment...