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...rhythmic pop-pop of pistol fire at a police range, the boom of a hunter's single shotgun blast, the crack of steel on steel as a movie hero slams home a magazine. But in an airy second-floor studio here at the headquarters of the world's oldest firearms manufacturer, in the iron-rich alpine foothills of Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, there's another, more delicate sound: the staccato tapping of engravers adding the tiny finishing touches to the company's custom-made shotguns. And we mean custom: buyers can specify size, shape, materials and just about any engraved...
Players on both sides recognize how much this game means to everyone involved. Students, faculty, and alumni look to their football teams to provide bragging rights for a whole year in one of the nation’s oldest sports rivalries...
...captains are the oldest players on the team, after junior Kristin Wadhwa decided to sit out this year to study abroad in the spring...
...home in Levittown, Pa., to assume full-time care of Charles Sr., 76, and Ruth, 73. Charles' worsening dementia and Ruth's health problems meant that if the parents were to stay in the family home, someone would have to live with them. Chuck, 56, says that as the oldest of the Thompson offspring and with his kids grown, he most naturally got the job. Now he cooks the meals, maintains the house and manages his ailing parents' complicated medical care--all while running a home-based marketing business. Even though he describes his daily life as careening from crisis...
Without varsity funding or access to training facilities and coaches, the team has looked to its alumni and its own members to keep the oldest rugby team in the nation functional...