Word: shrapnel
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Half a year later, the duel has turned nasty, with legal shrapnel accompanying this month's releases of the latest versions of competing browsers, Netscape's Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft's Explorer 3.0. Which one is better? It's hard to say, and this in itself is a victory for Microsoft, which released its first weak browser just a year ago. Many Microsoft-loathing high-tech cognoscenti say Navigator remains the better guide. But the new Explorer narrows that gap convincingly, and the average user won't notice much difference...
...been transformed into something considerably more muted. Alice S. Hawthorne, 44, of Albany, Georgia, was killed by the bomb; Melih Uzunyol, a 37-year-old Turkish cameraman, died of a heart attack while rushing to the park to cover the story; and 111 people were wounded, most by shrapnel that flew as far as 100 yards from the blast. Everyone else was simply stunned. "The Olympics have been going so well," said Sultan Muhammad, an Atlantan who came to watch the Games. "It's such a shame, a shame to ruin them...
Minutes after the blast, the streets were filled with stunned people walking aimlessly up the hill in the dark towards Peachtree Street, while helicopters circled overhead, shining blinding searchlights on the city. Some of those walking away from Centennial Park were bleeding from minor shrapnel wounds. As traffic came to a standstill, police worked to move thousands of frightened people out of major intersections, making way for ambulances while urging the crowds to keep moving away from the scene of the explosion. Once out of the immediate area of the bomb scene, though, people seemed at a loss...
...sequence of nonfatal mishaps. In January 1994 a ValuJet DC-9 skidded off an icy runway in Washington, forcing the closure of the airport. Last June the crew of a ValuJet DC-9 taxiing in preparation for takeoff from Atlanta heard a loud bang as an engine failed, scattering shrapnel that injured seven passengers and causing a fire that spread to the fuselage. Within 90 seconds smoke had engulfed the passenger compartment. The crew's prompt evacuation of the passengers drew praise from a controller who watched the scene through binoculars--but also caused the FAA to order close inspections...
...waving his wizened arm like a magic wand, frantically trying to capture the delegates he needs to win in San Diego. He will tell and retell the story of how his right arm was paralyzed. If his poll numbers continue to slip, he will begin adding tasteless details about shrapnel fragments, and finally, he will start choking into tears as he recounts the tale of his sacrifice...