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Five shooting bays allow officers to shoot at targets up to 50 feet away. A mock-up of a house stands in one corner, for hostage scenarios. The thick cement back wall of the range is pock-marked with bullet holes. At the wall's base, in piles of sand, lie hundreds of flattened bullets...
...Yussef's arrival, Na'ama heard a hail of shots. Then her husband Ahmad screamed, "There's a young guy on the ground out there!" Na'ama rushed into the growing gloom of late afternoon. She recognized her son's denim jacket and jeans. He lay dead with a bullet in the back of his head, assassinated by an Israeli special unit that was guided to its target by Palestinian collaborators...
Bacteria and parasites do not do this on purpose, of course, but the effect is much the same. In 1944, for example, penicillin appeared to be a magic bullet against staphylococcal infections. The problem was, it failed to kill every single bug, and those that survived the onslaught slowly began to multiply. The result: by the 1950s most staph infections had become highly resistant to penicillin. The same fate met penicillin's successors, erythromycin and methicillin; now it appears to be vancomycin's turn...
...promise of the new drug systems, M.I.T.'s Langer is still looking ahead to what many researchers hold out as an ultimate goal: a magic bullet placed in the bloodstream that "goes right to where you want it and only there, and does exactly what you want it to do and only that. We are not there...
...pickups with rear-mounted antiaircraft and antitank guns--in the city. Afrah, however, scoffs at the notion that warlord power is slipping. "This is our business," he says, as he points out the features of his battle wagons with a long thin stick tipped with a small-caliber bullet shell...