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Seven former directors of the National Park Service - including the Bush administration s first park chief - have signed a letter opposing the Interior Department s plan to reconsider regulations restricting loaded guns in national parks.The former park officials say current regulations requiring that visitors to national parks render their weapons inaccessible were working well and have helped make national parks among the safest places in America. These rules,
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In addition to Richard Branson lofty ambitions in space, the entrepeneur-explorer also has a project to send paying customers to the bottom of the ocean. Or, rather, had: it seems that very quietly, and with none of the fanfare surrounding the original launch, Virgin has shelved its current deep-sea project. From a report in the Telegraph, it
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