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...last month to adopt several kinds of safety measures--among them installing "smart-gun technology" on all its guns within three years in exchange for being dropped from numerous lawsuits. Colt has stopped making most of its guns for sale to individuals, focusing on the police and military markets instead...
...culture and the media. When US Weekly retracted a claim that Tom Cruise had fallen out with the Church of Scientology, MH fired off "Corrections the Scientologists Made Us Run," including "Tom Cruise does not stand on a phone book whenever he and Nicole Kidman are photographed together. Instead she stands in a hole." It greeted Oprah Winfrey's O magazine with J: the Jerry [Springer] Magazine and has also posted Misfortune, a post-market-crash version of a certain TIME Inc. publication ("Rightsizing your family: Does your household have more mouths than food?"). It has even parodied parodies, spoofing...
...song. But to me, hip-hop is more of a culture. We grew up in a hip-hop environment. But as far as me using words like 'yo' in my lyrics, I'm not about that, and I don't think this band calls for that at all." Instead, Moreno's lyrics come at the listener at odd angles, suggesting emotions rather than announcing them, conjuring strong images without explaining their meanings. "You turn newborn baby blue," he croons on RX Queen. "You're into depression cause/it matches your eyes," he screams on Elite...
When Morocco's new king, Mohammed VI [WORLD, June 26], was asked if he was satisfied with U.S. economic support, he answered, "Absolutely not." Well, Mo, first you could fly coach, then buy a Saturn instead of driving that customized Mercedes, and shop at the Men's Wearhouse instead of a custom tailor. This is what hardworking Americans do to save money. Petty despots like the King have ripped off the American taxpayer long enough. It's time we told our politicians to stop squandering our tax dollars on excessive foreign aid to pathetic little men. The arrogance! VIN SAVINO...
...taking needed to support experimental products. In the mid-1980s, Fujio Masuoka, a senior manager at Toshiba, created flash memory, a powerful chip that enables laptops to function without cumbersome disc drives. "American chipmakers are going to have to copy our design or risk losing the market," crowed Masuoka. Instead, Toshiba balked at mass production. Eventually, Intel swooped in and within a few years held 85% of the multibillion-dollar market...