Word: localitis
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...despite their at times over-zealous rhetoric, there is some truth to this statement. Most who use guns for violent crimes are smart enough to acquire them illegally. If someone is going to be running drugs or robbing liquor stores, they are probably not attending gun shows at local expo centers or stores where they must deal with licensing. Instead, they turn to the illegal market for guns; something only controllable through tougher crime measures. This market is what needs regulating...
...injury was far beyond his expertise to treat. "I've spent half my career in ERs in some of the most violent cities in America, seen all kinds of mangled human beings, but I've never come across anyone still alive carrying such a horrific injury as Besim." Local surgeons could do nothing. "I knew," says Clay, now back at the rural St. Helena Hospital in Deer Park, Calif., "that I had become his only hope...
...users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet. Such an ad hoc local wireless network could theoretically hold up to 99 daughters. A bigger limitation, however, may be its price: $149 per unit is pretty steep...
Resorting to self-appointed internet experts described in "Web Know-It-Alls" [PERSONAL TIME: TECHNOLOGY, Feb. 21] strikes me as idiotic, particularly when queries took several hours to get helpful replies. Hours?! A less technological but far more authoritative approach would be to call the local public library for a quick answer. The Web is wonderful, but its limits are staggering. Sometimes the old ways are the best. JAMES J. MCPEAK Mayfield, Ohio...
Today, as COO of Timeless Software, a software-solutions firm that started out curing software and Internet-related headaches for the local government and utility companies, Cheng is well past that. Established in 1996, Timeless went public last November as one of two initial listings on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market, the territory's wannabe answer to NASDAQ...