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Sources tell TIME that cell-phone guns, some of which have been seized in drug raids in the Netherlands, England and Germany, have been cited in several federal security alerts over the past year, the most recent just over a month ago. Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal ones look nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in Croatia, are fired by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession...
...when time is the very thing you're trying to limit. Another possibility is nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses a larger reactor to superheat traditional propellant and blast it out the engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system, but the engine as a whole is heavier and cruder and the big reactor causes jitters among environmentalists, who would just as soon see nothing nuclear aboard any rocket that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting...
Absent from the realignment was sophomore Mike Baria (141 lbs.), who was not called up to fill one of the heavier vacancies for fear of a possible injury to a wrestler in one of the lower weight classes...
...will be wrestling one weight class higher than when he left, at 197 lbs. instead of 184 lbs. However, this is not unfamiliar territory for him—he spent much of his freshman and sophomore seasons at the heavier weight...
Both Lee and Weiss agree his wrestling style is better suited to 197 lbs. At 184 lbs., the competition is much quicker. Thirteen pounds heavier, matches depend on physical strength...