Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like guided missiles. Sometimes the force of their impact is so great that the magnetosphere convulsively contracts. Even spacecraft in near-earth orbit can find themselves outside the magnetosphere's protective embrace, exposed to blasts of high-energy protons. A direct hit by these protons, experts warn, could prove lethal to astronauts working in space...
...agents know that weapons need not be highly sophisticated to be lethal. "There's a great danger in looking for the most sophisticated plan," says Harry Brandon, the FBI's former deputy assistant director in charge of international terrorism and a supervisor of the Pan Am 103 case. "We tend to think terrorists are invincible, that they're smart as hell, and often they're not." Just lucky. "All you need is a clock and an explosive that's powerful enough," says Ronay. On Pan Am Flight 103, the bomb was the size of a coffee cup, but it happened...
There are probably no deep, dark secrets here, just as there is nothing lethal in the culture of San Pedro High, which is no more and no less troubled than the average suburban high school. It is ethnically mixed yet relatively strife-free, with aging buildings and overworked but enthusiastic teachers, many of whom attended San Pedro themselves. The school has been touched by drugs, guns and gang violence, but teachers believe the worst problem is kids who come from troubled and broken homes, kids who cannot or will not communicate with their parents, kids who seem unable...
...favor of prayer in schools. That doesn't make me a defender of embryos, destroyer of welfare or a bloodthirsty advocate of lethal injection or worse. And Bob Dole shouldn't expect me to stuff envelopes for him in the coming months...
...suspected Unabomber was indicted for three 1980s blasts in Michigan, Tennessee, and Utah. Kaczynski would face up to 120 years in prison if convicted, but the Justice Department says it will not prosecute until a verdict is reached on current charges of transporting, mailing and using explosives in four lethal attacks. Kaczynski has pleaded not guilty in a Sacramento court to the previous indictments, which alone could lead to the death penalty. It's likely that additional charges will come forward, most notably for the bomb that killed New Jersey marketing executive Thomas Mosser in December 1994. Among...