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...scary. They look like the kids who hang out in the 'hood, but cooler. They dress baggy, down and street-chic, accessorizing with tattoos, caps, goatees and stylish sneakers. They pursue action hobbies such as skateboarding, wakeboarding and taggin'. Most have human form, but some have heads shaped like aerosol-can nozzles. Created from sketches, sculptured in clay and then modeled from plastic parts, each Lau doll is a piece of urban art. "I get inspired from whatever is around me," Lau says...
...forms of terrorism. In May 1997, an Algerian extremist in London was arrested in possession of a scientific work on botulism. During the 1998 dismantling of a militant Islamist network in Belgium, police found on one of the leaders a document detailing the military applications of botulism toxin in aerosol form. The bin Laden operatives arrested in Brussels after Sept. 11 were known associates of some of those apprehended in the 1998 raid...
...drill like masonry bits through 20 ft. of stone before detonating, and B-2s dropped the behemoths on several caves last week. Pentagon officials got excited when secondary explosions from inside the caves continued for hours after the initial attacks. Fuel-air explosives are also handy; an explosive aerosol can be injected into the entrance of a cave and then ignited. Anyone left inside will suffocate and be fried to a crisp...
Chemical and biological agents are hazardous, but to cause mass annihilation they need to be made into weapons--a process that entails producing the material in large quantities, turning it into a powder and placing it in a delivery system such as a warhead, bomb or aerosol diffuser. All but two of Iraq's Soviet-made Scud missiles were accounted for after the Gulf War, but last year Iraq began testing short-range ballistic missiles, which could potentially be loaded with viruses or gases and fired as far as 95 miles away. U.S. defense experts were quick to ridicule...
...majority of the objects are made from styrofoam, most of which has been found as post-consumer waste. The Adams House squash courts are now littered with sheets upon sheets and blocks of styrofoam as well as colorful pool noodles, not to mention a profusion of rope, screen and aerosol cans of paint and glue. “I call it slightly controlled anarchy,” Bastian says...