Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first I thought it was a rock, the specialty of street urchins--a harmless shot against an armored humvee. I gazed down and spotted an object on the wooden bench 2 ft. away. The dark oval was as shiny and smooth as a tortoiseshell, roughly 6 in. long and 4 in. wide. None of my fellow passengers seemed to notice. I confronted the intruder alone, a journalist caught in a military moment. Something told me there was no time to consult the soldiers...
...well as a growing number of interior-design products, from expected items such as chandeliers and vases to more original pieces like curtain tassels. Crystals are essentially sand and water and chemical coloring agents fired and then cut and polished by machine, so a factory visit would seem harmless...
...found out about Mrs. Rajabi is disturbing: that she believes Ahmadinejad is a divine miracle, that she is intolerant and linked to political groups who would govern Iran with 7th century mores. Left to our own speculation, we assumed the wives of this administration were traditional housewives, harmless women who cooked for their families and enjoyed religious rituals. A generous-hearted friend of mine even hypothesized that on the inside, they were probably not unlike us. Sure, they wear a lot more black and don't go to caf?s, she said, but deep down they probably just care about creating...
...Still, we are left with plenty of time to ponder the same deep questions that seem to be preoccupying the media savants as they contemplate this harmless little movie: how effective has the Internet campaign for the film been, and what may it bode for the marketing of movies in the future? I suspect that Snakes will probably perform pretty much as most scare movies do - a big opening weekend followed by an alarming fall-off in its second and third weeks. I had a pretty good, regressive time at it - I've always kind of liked movies about airplanes...
Liquid explosives are particularly diabolical. Like plastic explosives, a small amount of them can release a massive amount of force. And they can be easily disguised to look harmless. In 2002 the FBI issued a warning that al-Qaeda members had discussed sneaking onto planes liquid explosives disguised as coffee. The bombers who struck London's transit system in July 2005 used a variant of a peroxide-based explosive, triacetone triperoxide (TATP). "We didn't wake up and discover liquid explosives this week," says DHS Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson...