Word: blasting
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Nature sometimes has suicidal impulses. This year in the American West, it has set itself on fire--fire's version of The Perfect Storm, a convergence of dry summer lightning, blast-furnace air and millions of acres of tinder. The worst is yet to come...
...Johnson says he's "pretty much full blast" again after the injury and plans to compete three times before the Games. What returned this 32-year-old so quickly to fine fettle? A regimen of deep-tissue massage and other therapy that is much different from what weekend warriors might do to cure a muscle: "For a week I had ultrasound two or three times a day, then I'm sitting on a table with someone digging into a muscle that's already sore as hell, breaking up fluid that's in there from the trauma. Not much...
...strap one to your desk, and it's time for blast-off, right? Pretty much. The Cube is just as speedy as its larger G4 cousin. It's also shockingly silent, thanks to Apple's fan-free liquid cooling system--a technology that has clearly undergone some improvement since it was first used in the iMac last year. Back then, the casing got so hot you could fry an egg on it; the Cube is much better at keeping its cool...
Johnson says he's "pretty much full blast" again after the injury and plans to compete three times before the Games. What returned this 32-year-old so quickly to fine fettle? A regimen of deep-tissue massage and other therapy that is much different from what weekend warriors might do to cure a muscle: "For a week I had ultrasound two or three times a day, then I'm sitting on a table with someone digging into a muscle that's already sore as hell, breaking up fluid that's in there from the trauma. Not much...
Trouble can still crop up unexpectedly. In March, a warning flare exploded in its launch tube in a submerged Navy submarine. The blast sheared a dozen bolts holding the launcher in place and let seawater flow into the bow compartment. There were no injuries, and the Navy has now barred the use of that kind of flare...