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Packing in public: Gun owners tired of hiding their weapons embrace 'open carry'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor years, Kevin Jensen carried a pistol everywhere he went, tucked in a shoulder holster beneath his clothes. In hot weather the holster was almost unbearable. Pressed against Jensen's skin, the firearm was heavy and uncomfortable. Hiding the weapon...Tags: Firearms, Gaming, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Issues, Colorado
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Hard facts fail to get 'soft walls' installed
of the Sentinel StaffIf you want to understand the debate about "soft walls" and concrete retaining walls in auto racing, think about bullets. If a bullet hits a hard surface at a slight angle -- say, 20 degrees -- it ricochets; that means the energy is channeled in...Tags: Indianapolis 500, Synthetics and Plastics, Metal and Mineral, Building Material, Auto Racing
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Happy Birthday, Hal
HAL, the petulant, malfunctioning computer of"2001: A Space Odyssey,"is about to have a birthday. But he won't be around to celebrate it. "We haven't made him yet," said Roy Campbell, a computer science professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-...
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Movies, Science and Technology, IBM, Entertainment
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|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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