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...rooms are not necessarily like the one in the movie. For one thing, they're usually called (less alarmingly) safe rooms. Most are smaller and less elaborate than the model in the film. For $10,000 to $15,000 you can get a just-the-basics shelter with blastproof Kevlar lining the walls. Higher-end models ($50,000 to $250,000) can include amenities such as mini-bars, fold-down beds, TVs and DVD players. In some homes, that's known as a den. --By Roy B. White and Laura A. Locke...
...WALLS Made of wood and steel, often with lightweight bullet- and fire-resistant Kevlar panels. In high-end rooms, motion detectors stop doors from shutting...
...military planners are marveling over the success of a key piece of battlefield equipment, worn for the first time by U.S. troops in combat. The new lightweight Kevlar vest, officially dubbed "interceptor body armor," is being credited for holding down casualties in the just completed battle for Shah-i-Kot. Some soldiers pinned down in fire fights survived AK-47 and other small-arms fire to their chest and back because of the new vest. After the battle, soldiers noted that most of the wounds suffered by U.S. troops were in the arms and legs...
...Small Arms Protective Inserts, ceramic plates weighing 4 lbs. apiece, which are slipped into pockets on the front and back of the vest. The whole outfit costs the Army $1,500 and adds just 16 lbs. to a soldier's gear, making it likelier than the old Kevlar vest (which weighed in at 25 lbs.) to be worn in all combat situations...
Just weeks after Cavagnoud's death, Silvano Beltrametti lost control at 120 km/h and sliced through the orange Kevlar netting that bordered the run in an especially violent crash during the season's opening World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isère. His spine was broken between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, leaving the 22-year-old Swiss skier paralyzed from the waist down. Beltrametti recently told a press conference: "I lived for skiing, 24 hours a day, but that time is behind me now. In a second all my dreams, goals and visions came to nothing...