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...showdown: five Israeli commandos vs. one Palestinian--the woman, reincarnated as a Ninja babe. When the marksmen fire their Uzis at her, she twirls skyward, the bullets harmlessly haloing her head. She disarms two of the men with flying darts, evaporates two more with grenades, does in the fifth Goliath with her slingshot and destroys an Israeli helicopter with a metal boomerang shaped like the state of Palestine. Ninja! Gotcha! Intifadeh...
...baseball’s best managers. Winning a few World Series with the Yankees and being called one of the best managers of all time is like getting a rocket launcher for your birthday, taking out a couple cars and being called one of history’s best marksmen. Managing the Yankees to the World Series should, in theory, be about as challenging as piloting a washing machine through the spin cycle: Insert money, watch...
...tall crane and floated a blimp attached to a high-tension cable, mounting surveillance cameras on each. A team of intelligence officers kept track of movements in the church compound and relayed the information to snipers from the Special Police Unit, an elite squad that has the best marksmen in the Israeli services. The intelligence officers communicated with the snipers by using an aerial photo divided into tiny sectors; that made it easier to describe where a Palestinian had been spotted...
...millions of sports fans worldwide had been waiting for: the opening of the biggest Winter Olympic Games ever. The event began with the customary fanfare but unprecedented levels of security. While F-16 fighters patrolled the skies, more than 15,000 security personnel were deployed, including FBI officers and marksmen on skiing pistes and at all sporting venues. As the Olympic flame arrived at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium, 3 billion television viewers tuned...
RADAR FLASHLIGHTS Gene Greneker, a radar expert at Georgia Tech, was fiddling with a radar gun he had developed for monitoring marksmen and archers during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he noticed something odd: whenever someone walked on the other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the radar screen. One thing led to another, and now Greneker is trying to smooth out the final kinks in his Radar Flashlight, a device that looks like an oversize hair dryer but can penetrate 8-in.-thick nonmetal doors and walls. When radar waves encounter moving objects, like a hostage...