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A gun crew was a skilled unit of, usually, more than ten men who spent a great deal of time practising loading, aiming, and firing their piece.
There are also pieces on the WTO riots and the mass graves in Juarez--unusually interesting stories for the A section--but for the really compelling copy you've got to venture inside "Style," where Howie Kurtz has an account of a group firing at the New York Times . The other day the Times tossed more than 20 employees from one of its clerical offices in Norfolk for sending "inappropriate and offensive" e-mails.
The NYT runs a front-pager reporting that a presidential panel has recommended that the U.S. military be allowed to resume live firing exercises on Navy property in Puerto Rico--for the next five years.
(Even should it become possible to detect and integrate the workings of every neuron in the brain, it would still be far from clear how neuronal firing patterns translate into coherent, perceived thoughts, and this gap is unlikely to be bridged by any advance in imaging technology alone.)
An editorial sighs that Milosevic's firing of his most liberal aide bodes poorly for a compromise in the Kosovo war.