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Safety catches do not always prevent firearm accidents and even newfangled biometric guns, which check the identity of a user by their fingerprint, cannot stop thieves from using stolen ammunition in other weapons. The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself. Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun...

College Republican leaders ousted over bake sale Thursday, April 07, 2005 By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood The Grand Rapids Press ALLENDALE -- Kyle Rausch started the day Monday as president of the Grand Valley State University College Republicans. By day's end, he had denounced the Republican party and was considering law school as an alternative to public office. "My political career is pretty much shot," said the 19-year-old political science major who spearheaded last month's controversial bake sale, sponsored by the College Republicans. Advertisement At the club's meeting Monday, Rausch, of Adrian, club vice president Paul Leitelt, and treasurer Matt Blondke were...

I was talking to a friend of mine overseas about his country, the Socialist Republic of Finland, and he was complaining about how pointless it was to have master both Finnish and Swedish in order to graduate High School. It got me to thinking about compulsory items our governments make us do.Besides Swedish they are also required to complete a compulsory 1 year military stint. Germany and Switzerland also have this, to varying degrees, and we in the US have the Selective Service registration, for males 18-25, in case a draft is needed.Shouldn't the same be required of all people...