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...Owners of America, described on its website as a "no-compromise gun lobby," has called for a boycott of Smith & Wesson, and one wholesaler has said it will stop buying the company's guns. This has prompted the attorneys general in three states--New York, Connecticut and Maryland--to launch an antitrust investigation into whether the gun industry is colluding to punish Smith & Wesson...
...production is faithful to the gripping (if didactic) original, in which an accidental bomber launch against Moscow triggers a chain of excruciating decisions. In a way it's a natural for live TV--taut, unfolding largely in real time. But the original drew its charge from the threat of war with an empire that no longer exists (though its weaponry does). So why do it now? Because George Clooney wanted to. He made Fail Safe a priority when he pitched shows to CBS; the network in turn insisted that he act in it (he plays a bomber pilot...
Intrigued? The best place to launch your hunt is eeggs.com run by Redmond, Wash., programmer David Wolf. Like Alice, Wolf had no idea what he was getting into when he started the site. "I thought there were maybe 10, 15 eggs," he says. It now gives instructions for cracking more than 1,500 software-based eggs. That's a heck of a lot of secret Narnias. And you'll never know how many more are out there until you start burrowing through that secret digital wardrobe...
Giorgio Armani's new scent is called Mania. Later this year Ralph Lauren will launch a perfume called Ralph. And Givenchy has three scents due in the fall: Fast Forward, Rewind and Play. After years of offering exotic and sensuously named perfumes and colognes, fragrancemakers have started giving scents names that evoke more prosaic moments...
NASA has plenty of money but zero interest in making space less expensive for the little guys. So the little guys are racing to do what NASA has failed to do: design a reusable launch system that's inexpensive, safe and reliable. Kelly Space's prototype looks like a plane that has sprouted rocket engines. Rotary Rocket in Redwood City, Calif., has a booster with rotors to make a helicopter-style return to Earth; Kistler Aerospace in Kirkland, Wash., is piecing together its version from old Soviet engines, shuttle-style thermal protection tiles and an elaborate parachute system. The first...