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...deal's most publicized element--to require safety locks on all handguns--than about other regulations in the 24-page agreement. For instance, to sell Smith & Wessons, dealers must require all employees to pass a written test on firearm safety. And they must agree to secure the guns in fireproof safes at night. "This store is a windowless block that hasn't had a robbery in 50 years," says Kay Miculek, owner of Clark Custom Guns in Princeton, La. "I'd have to buy another vault to meet the restrictions...
...Landry remained a silent, mournful football widower, reproachfully if silently carrying a torch for the team that moved on without him to further victories. At his firing, he shed public tears, which shocked an America that saw him as the faultlessly tailored, taciturn but brilliant sideline tactician. "Fireproof, bulletproof, emotionproof," the writer Pete Axthelm once said. Landry had a right to the tears. He had been coach since Dallas joined the NFL in 1960 and had nurtured the team from its winless first season through five Super Bowls and two world championships. In Landry's 29 years at the helm...
After months of predictions that we would never arrive here, that impeachment was dead after the election, that the House could play with matches because the Senate was fireproof, that Monica was more likely to be invited to tea with Hillary than to testify before the heirs of Daniel Webster, we begin a brand-new year full of startling events to misinterpret and fresh expectations to defy. And so on cue the Senate set about defying them, managing to do what no politicians on this stage had done last year: remain calm, act like grownups and find the safest...
...exhibit was guest curated by Ricky Jay, a magician and author of the books Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women and Cards as Weapons...
...more politically fireproof sentence has yet to be conceived by mortal man. On the surface the policy seems reasonable, given the prevalence of offensive sites and the ease with which even a novice Web surfer can find them (though most porn sites these days can't be accessed without a credit card). But free-speech advocates call censorware a cure worse than the disease. Filtering programs block Web pages in one of two ways. The more primitive method is to search for key words in the pages' titles, a system with all the subtlety of a Gatling gun. America Online...