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...these engineering hurdles. Now, the CIA had found it. Mubtakkar means "invention" in Arabic, "the initiative" in Farsi. The device is a bit of both. It's a canister with two interior containers: sodium cyanide is in one; a hydrogen product, like hydrochloric acid, in the other; and a fuse breaks the seal between them. The fuse can be activated remotely - as bombs are triggered by cell phones - breaking the seal, creating the gas, which is then released. Hydrogen cyanide gas is a blood agent, which means it poisons cells by preventing them from being able to utilize oxygen carried...
...dislocated a joint. Luckily, he did not injure his veins or arteries. Now he must fight off infection during recovery SAVING BARBARO 1 In a 4.5-hour operation, surgeons inserted 27 screws and a 15-in. (38 cm) plate in and along the broken bones. The bones will fuse over time. Barbaro should be able to walk again, even though his ankle won't bend Cannon Sesamoid Pastern 2 To keep him from thrashing about and reinjuring himself when the anesthetic wore off, Barbaro was lowered into a pool of water for about an hour Raft keeps horse...
...young writer in Britain brings his formidable gifts very close to home. In his first novel, Ghostwritten, in 1999, David Mitchell, now 37, invented the planetary novel, in a way, by setting nine stories in eight countries and describing a single spirit that ran through them all like a fuse. In his third novel, 2004's Cloud Atlas, he turned the postmodern book inside out by setting pieces in six different ages and voices, then doubling back (a little too fancily perhaps) to explore the idea of "eternal recurrence." In his new, most deeply personal work, Mitchell does something even...
...plays that deal with what it means to be black in America, might suggest that to perform each play by itself was, well, enough. But this season’s production by blackC.A.S.T., Harvard’s theater company dedicated to black community and student theater, attempts to fuse the two scripts into a new play, “when the rainbow is enuf/...&the streets were too much,” that premiered yesterday in the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Shange’s all-female play, which debuted in 1968, became a Broadway hit and inspired Mason?...
...hand was holding them there and it opened their eyes to receive" his message. He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'tre is to prepare the way for the messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos. How better to light the fuse for eternal bliss than with a nuclear flame...