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...midweek, the icy blast had roared out of Alaska across western Canada and into the American Midwest. Driven by 100-m.p.h. winds and the strongest high- pressure system in North American history (barometers reached 31.85 in. of mercury), the frigid front generated mammoth snowstorms and in some areas dropped thermometer readings by as much as 70 degrees in a matter of hours...
Consider, for example, the Washlet, a technological wonder that takes the guesswork out of cleaning up. A kind of toilet bowl-cum-bidet, the Washlet sprays a water jet, then dries with a blast of warm air. For added comfort, the seat is heated. It even has a safety device: to prevent the mechanically inquisitive from being sprayed in the face, the water nozzle will not work until a sensor registers the presence of a seat upon the seat. The fruit of a two-year survey of the Japanese anatomy -- in search of the perfect angle for the water nozzle...
Semiautomatics have become the weapon of choice for drug gangs looking for more firepower to blast away any threat to their giant profits, from police or rival peddlers. Law-enforcement officials note that the rise of semiautomatic weaponry parallels almost exactly the virtual takeover of parts of big cities by crack dealers. "In considerably more than half the crack arrests we make, we also seize firearms -- that is, good firearms," reports Robert Stutman, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York State. "The paranoia induced by the drug, which most of the traffickers use themselves, makes them pick...
...that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...
...about 9 a.m. last Tuesday, scores of federal police officers and troops surrounded Hernandez's heavily guarded house in Ciudad Madero, northeast of Mexico City. Whether authorities first attempted to arrest Hernandez without force is unclear; what is beyond dispute is that the lawmen used a bazooka to blast open the front door. When the battle was over, a federal agent lay dead and Hernandez and about a dozen other union officials and bodyguards were under arrest...