Word: laser
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Eight minutes later, Harvard tied the game on a laser by junior forward Ladd Fritz. A botched Maine clear left the ball in Fritz’s possession. The junior took two quick dribbles before sending the ball just past Maine goalie Josh Sjostrom and into the lower-left hand corner...
...destabilizing potential enemies, including the U.S. In the past three years, the People's Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy that relies heavily on this kind of technological know-how. In the future it even wants to add such high-tech gizmos as laser beams to zap U.S. satellites that monitor battlefields, bombs emitting electromagnetic pulses that blind missile guidance systems, and computer attacks that could put U.S. command networks on the fritz...
...addition to keeping Henderson on a short leash, Ahn also contributed in scoring chances, including a laser of a shot on goal in the last five minutes of the first half...
...base in the California high desert. Hernandez was hit while he and his Marine platoon were trying to secure a landing zone for a helicopter that was bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate. All in all, it was a rough day for the Marines. "It was very difficult to find a place to hide," says Hernandez...
...takes on Iraq, America's military planners will do whatever they can to avoid fighting in the streets. In their most optimistic scenarios, the war will begin once again in the skies, with satellite-guided bombs that are far "smarter" and more plentiful than the laser-guided bombs used in 1991 during the first war with Iraq. Washington would initially try to take out air-defense and command-and-control sites. Next to go would be Saddam's palaces and other symbols of his power, such as television studios and transmitting towers used to fill Iraqi airwaves with his words...