Word: shield
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American troops in Iraq have become masters of improvisation, like bolting jury-rigged armor to humvees to shield themselves from sniper fire and shrapnel. Lately, an even more novel item has joined their battle kits. Stratford, N.J., mom Marcelle Shriver recently got a call from her son Todd requesting ... Silly String. Marines working with his unit in Iraq had shown the Army combat engineer how it can be used to detect trip wires. Before searching buildings, for example, personnel spray doorways from at least 10 ft. away with streams of foam--and see if they're snagged by barely visible...
...employment prospects of being a Yale graduate are dour. And you rightly fear the one dollar cost of beers at our tailgate this year. Who knows if you’ll ever get a job? It doesn’t help matters that your Council of Masters strives to shield you from the light by ceasing to provide shuttles to transport you from your misery. But keep your chins up; Harvard has a charitable side. Despite having to rummage aimlessly through your wasteland and mix with your lot the night before last year’s game, free parties await...
...Harvard prepares to inaugurate the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the University will have to answer a fundamental question—when researchers stand to make massive contributions to knowledge in areas that are the subject of controversy, to what extent is it incumbent on us to shield them from the prying eyes of the government...
...tokyo gallery usually reserved for the painterly impressions of Renoir's bathers, Monet's water lilies and Van Gogh's windmills, a group of white-gloved, green-uniformed installation specialists have gathered round the much earthier canvas of Judy Watson's Aboriginal Shield, which has come all the way from Wollongong. Around the corner, Ken Thaiday Senior's tiger-shark headdress occupies a cabinet where early Greek and Egyptian antiquities are normally housed. But this day the biggest impression comes when Patricia Piccinini's mutant possum sculpture emerges-bearing impossibly lifelike wrinkles, hair and fangs-from its packing box. "With...
...Prism also happens to be the title of one of the works in the show-Imants Tillers' 1986 painting, from a private collection in Sydney. Assembled on 165 canvas boards and referencing both Expressionist Georg Baselitz's figure of a German soldier and Timmy Payungka Japangardi's Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming, this postmodern picture puzzle announces the exhibition's intriguing but not wholly convincing contention-that multicultural voices and Aboriginal culture have colonized Australian art. "That's really the message we have-lots of cultural backgrounds coming into our show," says Nakayama. "And this is Australia...