Word: blasting
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Darkness. Silence. Suddenly a blinding array of bright blue lights blast the eager crowd into “Next Exit.” Smooth chords on the keyboard entice lead singer Paul Banks to inform the audience of their new fate: “We ain’t going to the town, we’re going to the city...
...with floods of new arrivals have come new issues and conflicts. Part of the problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying...
...rate of 6% of wounded soldiers is twice that of earlier wars. But in addition, doctors are seeing new injuries, some of them inconspicuous compared with the shredded flesh of bombing victims. Traumatic brain injury occurs when the shock from an explosion damages neurological fibers. Soldiers may survive a blast with scarcely a cut, only to find over time that they suffer coordination and memory loss, dizziness, insomnia. Some have to learn to walk again--or to recognize their wives and children...
...less than 10 ft. away. Frentz was blown into the air, the force literally ripping off her clothes and scorching her upper body. Shrapnel put a hole in her left leg the size of a tennis ball. Bits of the burgundy plastic caf table and metal from the blast shot into her head, tearing her left ear 80% off. She remembers thinking, "Wrong place, wrong time...
CityStep is a chance to work with kids on something they are really into, dancing and hip-hop. So as a composer, I’ve just had a blast making beats that get the kids excited and that’s something because middle-schoolers are the most discriminating critics. Right now I’m finishing up my music for this year’s CityStep show. The theme is centered on paintings from which we make a song and dance. My team got Henri Rousseau’s Fauvist painting “The Sleeping Gypsy?...