Word: shrapnel
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...edge of the universe, two stars the size of Earth, made of million-degree diamond and oxygen, smash together in an explosion that outshines their entire galaxy. The shrapnel from explosions like that one are thought to have made everything we know on Earth—including us—and could provide clues to the ultimate fate of the universe. And last week, a team led by Harvard astronomers announced they had seen such shrapnel. What the team observed was a stellar explosion, called a supernova, that was caused by the merger and collision of two white dwarf stars?...
...been hit - it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer. There was no massive pain, it was just numb. It felt like raw steak, to be honest. So I grabbed hold of the artery that runs underneath and just pinched it as hard as I could." The shrapnel removed from Stockton's arm is on display. It still contains pieces of his uniform...
...other remedies before opting for something as extreme as DBS, those suffering from traumatic brain injury have few such options. Right now, from 100,000 to 300,000 Americans have suffered sufficient brain trauma to be classified as minimally conscious--a number that is growing as soldiers wounded by shrapnel come home from Iraq. Twenty percent of minimally conscious patients recover well enough to return to the community and resume their lives. Others never do. Still others drift at the functional margins, needing just a boost to cross the line into self-sufficiency...
...Ghraib three days after he arrived in Iraq and, by many accounts, spent most of his time trying to improve the lives of his soldiers, who were living in squalid conditions and under almost daily mortar attack. Three days after arriving at the prison, Jordan was also hit by shrapnel during an attack that killed two other men. But some subordinates have suggested that he was at the very least aware of the abuses and did nothing to stop them...
...Beyond the political shrapnel, however, Kyuma's gaffe represents a deeper setback to Abe. When he entered office last September as the youngest Prime Minister of the postwar period, Abe promised to make pacifist Japan as a normal nation, one that could defend itself and its allies on the world stage. He bumped up Kyuma's defense office to a Cabinet-level ministry, and set the revision of Japan's pacifist constitution as his signature issue. But Abe's vision of a more muscular Japan has excited few voters, who are more concerned with their pocketbooks, and constitutional revision...