Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is the story that Army prosecutors are expected to tell in a court-martial scheduled to begin this week in the tiny, white courthouse at this Kentucky post. They will allege that Glover followed through on his threat the next night, creeping up to Winchell's cot as he slept and smashing his head in with a baseball bat. But Glover is not the only one on trial. The Army is haunted by the fear that it may be seen as his accomplice for fumbling the military's policy on gays in uniform, not just in this case...
Just take the great martial powers of modern times: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, Japan, China and Israel. The age of America's expansion in the 19th century was marked by the low-tech coffeepot that was left on the fire until the brew inside had thickened into a blackish acid just right for tanning buffalo hides...
...online convergence has come for its audience: 56% of 12-to-24-year-olds with computers have a TV in the same room. But the knock against "interactive TV" has been that it's an oxymoron; no one's agitating for a choose-your-own-adventure version of Martial Law. webRIOT hopes to score with a sort of cheap-'n'-dirty, Scud-missile interactivity. The game (accessible at www.mtv.com requires no special hardware or complicated interface; players simply use the keyboard as a buzzer. And, notes MTV programming head Brian Graden, successful game shows already have an "interactive" element: yelling...
...which has been practiced for over 2,000 years, is one of the original systems of martial arts. Thousands of Chinese, who believe that Tai Chi preserves health and prevents aging, still use it as their daily exercise...
...wasn't really into anything athletic," says Takada, "But I wanted to do something that was relaxing and had some martial arts significance...