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COVER STORY FREE TO KILL A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta shows Islamic terrorists are still on the loose in Indonesia...
...after 86 minutes of scoreless play, all it took was one shot. Tribe forward Anna Pawlow launched a blast into the top left corner of the net on an assist from teammate Brittany Bode. The junior’s second career goal gave William & Mary just the advantage it would need as Harvard was unable to respond, despite outshooting the Tribe 11-6 in the matchup...
...latest terrorist onslaught began two weeks ago with some 150 rebels briefly taking over two districts of Grozny, the Chechen capital, and killing at least 120. Three days later, a blast at a Moscow bus stop injured four. The explosion of two passenger planes the same day, believed to be the work of two Chechen suicide bombers, left 90 dead, and finally, on Aug. 31, a woman blew herself up outside a busy Moscow metro station, killing eight others...
...journal Radiology precisely how much radiation you are exposed to in a single full-body scan. It turns out to be 100 times the radiation dose of a typical mammogram--or roughly equivalent to that received by Hiroshima survivors 1.5 miles away from the center of the atom bomb blast. According to David Brenner, lead author of the study, the risks associated with just one scan are relatively modest, likely to increase your chances of dying from a radiation-caused cancer to about 0.08%. But if you were to get scanned every year for 30 years, your risk of developing...
...star chopper. When they reach the falling probe, they will use a 20-ft. catch pole with a latching hook on the end to snag the parafoil. The hook will then detach from the pole, although it will still be connected by a cable. At that point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...