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"The new rules seem to have hit a snag because no one at the Bureau considered the number of unfinished frames and receivers sitting in stores’ inventory. Now the ATF will be reaching out to licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) to see how many kits are currently for sale. The ATF is asking the dealers how long it would take to serialize those kits and what the FFL’s plan to do with the kits if a rule went into effect that would require serialization."

A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all the German composer left of his symphony before his death in 1827. Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to complete a version of the piece using sophisticated computer software to predict what Beethoven had planned.

ATLANTA - From the pulpit of the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once was pastor, Atlanta's mayor reminded the congregation Monday that his work for peace and justice remains unfinished. Mayor Shirley Franklin admonished congregants at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church not to pay tribute to King's dream on his birthday, observed as a national holiday Monday, and then contradict it the next. "Millions can't find jobs, have no health insurance and struggle to make ends meet, working minimum wage jobs. What's going on?" she said, repeating a refrain from soul singer Marvin Gaye. "Thousands of black and Latino...

The decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award former President Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 requires some serious review. The Committee stated that it was honoring the former president "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." But history tells a different story - that of a political neophyte president who, when it came to conducting domestic and foreign affairs, was way out of his depth. According to Michael Schoenfeld of Commentary, who reviewed Carter's book Living Faith,...

U.S. authorities yesterday found what they believe was an incomplete cross-border tunnel, about 75 yards from a tunnel discovered Monday. Unlike the tunnel found earlier this week, this one had no detectable exit in the United States. It extended about 10 feet north from the border fence, to the west of the tunnel found Monday, and never surfaced, said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. authorities didn't enter the primitive dirt tunnel because it appeared to be unstable, so they weren't able to determine where it may have gone on the Mexican side, Mack said. However,...

Rumsfeld sets his sights on 'unfinished business' By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 10 April 2003 As the Bush Administration yesterday savoured the fall of Baghdad, Vice-President Dick Cheney warned that the "extraordinary" Iraq campaign sent a clear message to "all violent groups" that the US had the will and the power to win the war on terrorism decisively. The Vice-President and Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary took pains to warn of the potential troubles, especially in President Saddam's family stronghold of Tikrit, and in the oil cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, which yesterday were still held by the regime. Mr...