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Five shooting bays allow officers to shoot at targets up to 50 feet away. A mock-up of a house stands in one corner, for hostage scenarios. The thick cement back wall of the range is pock-marked with bullet holes. At the wall's base, in piles of sand, lie hundreds of flattened bullets...
Circular tongues of flame leap from the barrels and the sound reverberates through the thick walled room. With the shooting done, the smell of cordite hangs heavy...
Perhaps the Charles does, after all, reflect our thoughts. For us, winter exam period is often the bleakest of times. The steady stream of papers and exams, like a thick snowstorm, chills our souls and buries our wills. In the end we, like the river, can do nothing but wait meekly for the sun to break...
Take the showstopping titanium-covered G4 PowerBook, which Jobs left for his now traditional "one more thing" finale. This is pretty much what Mac lovers like myself have been fantasizing about for a long time: it's 1 in. thick and weighs less than 5 lbs., with a gorgeous 15-in. screen and slot-loading DVD drive. No Windows laptop offers all those features combined. After years of lugging clunky old PowerBooks onto planes and casting jealous glances at the guy with the 1.3-in.-slim Sony Vaio across the aisle, I'm looking forward to making the Vaio...
...their employers need to know what the law says. gmhc gives its new employees a seminar on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. The forum helps people understand the intricacies of the law and informs them in advance, rather than in the thick of a crisis situation. "Remember what work represents to people," says Sloan-Kettering's Zampini. "It's mastery and control over one's life. Work brings an enormous sense of personal fulfillment and self-worth." And productive workers--even those with chronic illnesses--more often than not give back with interest...