Word: jolt
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...country is beaming with him. Throughout the finals, Japanese stadiums have been packed with raucous fans dressed in the royal blue of Japan's team, rocking arenas with a seismic jolt of uncharacteristically exuberant support for the home side. Thousands of delirious Japanese poured onto the streets of Osaka on Friday night after the 2-0 victory over Tunisia. They climbed lampposts, darted in and out of traffic and leaped off car roofs. About 100 people, including salarymen, teenagers, and one buck-naked man with a Japanese flag tied around his neck like a cape, jumped into the green, murky...
...Harvard students look to rational, quantifiable reasoning when pressed to evaluate political issues. It took the catastrophic idiocy of the living wage sit-in to jolt Harvard students into looking with evaluative eyes at their political surroundings. For this, if nothing else, I am indebted to the campaign. If it weren’t for the over-the-top chanting, postering, and that silly first-year who hadn’t the slightest clue what he was doing, I may still have been living the Harvard lie of blind liberalism without prudent thought. I had to be convinced that...
What's truly novel about this project is the way the rat controllers issue their instructions. By tapping a keyboard, they send signals via radio waves to electrodes implanted in the animal's brain: a mild jolt to neurons that sense the right whiskers means "turn right"; a zap to the left-whisker neurons means "go left." The surprise was how easy this was to do. Neurophysiologists have long dreamed of building artificial limbs with tactile feedback that would be sufficiently sensitive to tell a user when a hand is grasping a barbell tightly enough to keep it from falling...
...keep the Veep's heart beating regularly--last July. Cheney, who suffered his fourth heart attack last year, may have to wear the business card-size device for the rest of his life. But should his heart ever act up again, the thing will automatically deliver a small jolt of electricity (enough to light a 30-watt bulb for 1 sec.) and snap it back into line...
...news came as a jolt to all of Asia: proof positive that terrorists not only had their eye on the region, but that they have accelerated their plans after Sept. 11. Even more stunning was the news that a sleeper cell was activated in Singapore, one of the most tightly controlled countries in the region. True, Singapore is resolutely pro-U.S. and offers plenty of American targets. It has a predominantly Muslim Malay minority, yet its members are anything but radical...