Word: objecters
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...object of such attacks is twofold. If you're lucky, you get the chief perpetrator. And if you're not, you have sent a message that the enemy cannot operate with impunity, bringing a measure of deterrence to his calculation...
...them. He calls this "the Cool Factor"--the mysterious marketing mojo that powers the $11 billion athletic-footwear market. That's where Iverson comes in, with his tattoos, corn-rowed hair and 'hood bravado. Allen is indispensably cool, which is why, a few months ago, when Reebok was the object of shrill protests over the obviously homophobic, misogynist lyrics in the basketball star's debut rap song, Fireman stood by his man. "I didn't agree with the song," says Fireman, who conceived the Reebok Human Rights Awards. "But he had a right to sing...
...some 4.5 billion years ago, was just five hours long, but it was a momentous one for Earth. A Mars-size object roaring in at 25,000 m.p.h. struck the young planet, already largely formed but devoid of life. The glancing blow hurled molten and vaporized debris into space, where it cooled, began circling Earth and eventually coalesced to form the moon...
...much as a phonograph reads the grooves of a record. Coat the needle with an appropriate chemical, however, and you convert it into a grapple for manipulating molecules. Laser tweezers, meanwhile, trap molecules and particles in a tightly focused beam of light. Move the beam and you move the object...
...money's good, and that puts them at particular risk. In small towns and cities like Nanhai, the wealth of Taiwanese businesspeople makes them the object of workers' envy and criminals' greed; they are particularly vulnerable to triads, organized crime syndicates that specialize in extortion, kidnapping and murder...