Word: crackly
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...April indictment was one of the government's first attempts to crack down on technology crimes, many of which have been launched by the growth of the Internet...
...religious groups than any country in recorded history,'' observes J. Gordon Melton, who will list 1,600 denominations, 44% of them non-Christian, in his next Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of these have blossomed since 1960; some are homegrown, others imported by immigrants. Judaism, the first faith to crack Christian hegemony, is today deeply rooted in the U.S., although it is being eroded by secularization, low birthrates and high levels of intermarriage. Some experts say ethnic Jews will be outnumbered by ethnic Muslims early in the 21st century...
...shower, pack and go to the airport by 11 o'clock?'' he asks. Cochran insists that ``In terms of the facts, I've had tougher cases.'' In 1990 he defended former Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges, who was arrested for firing eight bullets into a man in a crack house--a man who survived to identify Bridges. Cochran won an acquittal. It was perhaps the most dramatic illustration so far of his extraordinary talent for making jurors see things his way. ``Apart from the fact that he is a very skillful lawyer,'' says friend and fellow lawyer...
Progress has been made in designing earthquake-resistant--but not earthquake-proof--buildings. U.S. building codes are written to save lives, not prevent all damage. Modern structures are designed to sway and maybe even crack in a quake, but not to break apart and crush their inhabitants under falling debris. Says Bill Iwan, director of the earthquake engineering research laboratory at Caltech: ``With buildings, if you walk out after a quake, the designers did their...
...Airborne is considered one of Canada's best military formations, a crack 660-man unit founded in 1968 whose members have taken part in many overseas peacekeeping assignments for the U.N. A contingent from the regiment is currently serving in Rwanda. All 660 Airborne soldiers are scheduled to ship out in April to join a U.N. operation in Croatia, but that deployment may now be in jeopardy...