Word: bulletproofing
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...tops of the ponderosa pines at the Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...
...drug supply. Hardheaded and hungry for a story, Guerin is threatened, shot at and severely beaten before finally fingering untouchable kingpin John Gilligan. We know the ending too well: on June 26, 1996, while waiting at a traffic light, she is gunned down. Veronica Guerin may not have been bulletproof or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but for many in Ireland, she is a real-life superhero. But unlike, say, the Hulk, Guerin needs more than special effects to bring her legend to the big screen. Blanchett does a wonderful job of paying homage...
...murders under the Milosevic regime. So far, 45 conspirators have been charged in the assassination. The sweep has turned up new evidence against Milosevic and his wife Mira, and shed light on dozens of unsolved murders. A special courtroom is being built in downtown Belgrade, with secret booths and bulletproof glass, for a trial set to start in July. Military reforms, long delayed, are gathering pace too. Defense Minister Boris Tadic last week ordered members of the armed forces to reveal whatever they know of the whereabouts of suspected war criminals. At least one war-crimes suspect is expected...
...newly formed Anti-Corruption Council when he was struck in the chest by a single bullet fired from an abandoned office on the third floor of a building 200 m away from the government headquarters he was about to enter. Djindjic's bodyguards bundled him into the bulletproof bmw from which he had just emerged and rushed him to the hospital, where surgeons tried for an hour to revive him. "When we opened him up," said one, "there was a hole as big as a nutmeg at the front of his heart. I think he was dead before he fell...
...don’t like y’all anyway,” 50 Cent sings in “Life’s On The Line,” even though it’s not true. We like 50 Cent, his brashness, his boldness, even the bulletproof vest that has become his trademark fashion accessory. He may not enunciate as well as Em, or rhyme as wittily as Snoop, but for now he’s getting rich, he has two songs in the top 50—and what else matters...