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Used by U.S. police, troops in Iraq and even cruise ships trying to scare off pirates, this souped-up megaphone blasts out a high-pitched piercing sound. Anyone caught in its path will be incapacitated by an intense headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting To Stun | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Long Range Acoustic Device Used by U.S. police, troops in Iraq and even cruise ships trying to scare off pirates, this souped-up megaphone blasts out a beam of high-pitched, piercing sound. Anyone caught in its path will be incapacitated by an intense headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting to Stun | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...Surgery was successful. But while he survived the first scare, an eight-month roller coaster followed. In July, Barbaro developed severe laminitis, an equine foot disease in which the connection between the bone and hoof separates, causing excruciating pain. Dean Richardson, Barbaro's surgeon, called the colt's prognosis "poor." But his left hind hoof, uninjured in the Preakness, continued to re-grow after surgery removed 80% of it. In November, a cast on Barbaro's shattered right hind leg was removed. "In my mind's eye, he can leave in the not so distant future," Richardson declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbaro: Was It All Worth It? | 1/29/2007 | See Source »

...fierce it rocks the trailer homes, knocks over the kids' plastic tricycles in the muddy driveways and threatens to rip out the young fruit saplings planted by the 90 young settlers who call Migron home. A guard dog the size of a lion prowls the hilltop to scare off Arab prowlers--or terrorists. Migron is a hard and unforgiving place, especially these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Land Of the Lonely | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...predatory bird screeches. But the city of San Antonio is considering going one step further, hiring California-based Ronin Air Falconry Services, to send African Augur hawks and Faker falcons into the skies over the city's popular Riverwalk area. The plan is that the predator birds will scare the grackle flocks away from the tourists, allowing them to focus on margaritas, not Mother Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Fowl? | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

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