Word: driver
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...inevitably get to know a lot of people on the buses that cruise down the main streets of Nassau during the day. Life is easier in the Bahamas: there are no bus stops and it costs just $.50. To stop a passing bus just wave your hand at the driver. To get off, just yell out "Bus Stop." Sound simple...
...several weeks on gun purchases. That gives authorities time to check buyers for a criminal record and makes it harder for miscreants to get weapons. Not so in Texas or many parts of the South, such as Florida, South Carolina and Virginia, where customers need only show a driver's license or other form of identification that certifies them as state residents...
That kind of ID is easily forged by out-of-state buyers. "People come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...
Harvard's hockey team advances to the NCAA finals against Michigan State. A freak accident involving a drunken Zamboni driver and five upperclassmen in bunny suits leaves the starting line-ups of both teams unable to compete...