Word: plumed
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...Chinese have looked to the skies ever since Wan Hu, a 14th century carpenter, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers...
Carbon dioxide traps like the Mosquito Magnet work by emitting a plume of carbon dioxide, heat, moisture and octenol. They do a great job of capturing mosquitoes, but there's a chance they could work too well and attract more mosquitoes than usual to your yard, some of which might bite you on their way to being trapped. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Taylor, 30, and Sharkey, 31, are nationally syndicated sex columnists, and just as dating sometimes leads to bigger commitments, they've now written a book. The Big Bang (Plume; 258 pages) is this generation's smarter, funnier and raunchier version of The Joy of Sex. Not that Taylor and Sharkey don't like the archetypal sex primer and its clinical line drawings. "It just takes itself very seriously, which a lot of people our age and younger can't relate to," Sharkey says. "We wanted to take a more fun approach to sex while making sure we put forth good...
...conniver who would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume and reciting the 23rd Psalm in a German accent...
...featuring some of the ?most severe punishments of Ching Dynasty.? One man is strapped to a burning stake and his skin burned to a crispy, Mandarin Duck orange. Another is splayed upside down and castrated, his engorged genitals plopping into a cup as an official puckishly plants a white plume to mark the spot of the surgery. A third is guillotined at the waist, his top half still writhing after the severance. The last victim is buried to the neck, his scalp carved open at the top and a steaming caustic poured into it. He writhes in pain and explodes...