Word: nova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonlethal way for police to incapacitate violent criminals. Shaped like small flashlights or cellular phones and powered by store-bought batteries, stun rods deliver a series of millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts...
Though their pop minimalism is easily misunderstood, it is through this very style of experimenting that Stereolab continues to legitimize music traditionally bastardized in the rock lineage. It's not difficult to find the distinctive strains of bossa-nova, lounge-pop and movie soundtracks underneath the pulsating rhythms and enchanting vocals...
...Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against mining conditions in Nova Scotia (Margaret's Museum...
...Nova was ready for revenge as Radcliffe and UMass traveled to Philadelphia the next weekend. However the Wildcats again proved no match for the Black and White...
...first two spring rounds were played at Yale, a golf course eliciting a love-hate relationship even at the best of times. Take the bizarre case of sophomore Craig MacDonald: Com- of sophomore Craig MacDonald: Coming in virtually cold after missing the trip to Mexico, the native of Nova Scotia posted a solid 78 in treacherous, though familiar weather during the Harvard-Yale-Princeton match...