Word: slingshotting
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...latest personal technology triumph is the Slinger, which I bought at sitstay.com for $34.95. This overgrown slingshot fires tennis balls 150 ft. up a hill in my backyard--the perfect distance for my young brown hound Otto, who is an utter maniac for retrieving stuff. The Slinger is nearly perfect in every respect. It even has what I think of as a "wife feature": it lets my spouse scoop slimy, post-retrieved balls into a built-in wire rack without having to sully her ivory hands...
...size of a soccer field, fenced off within beautiful Klettsvik Bay. After two storm-lashed winters, Keiko graduated to the bay, 20 times the area of his pen and closed off with a 850-ft.-long barrier net. To encourage him to explore, his trainers built a large slingshot, which sent fish out 50 yds. in all directions. They took him on training swims behind a boat to build up his stamina and speed. In May a gate was opened in the barrier. Keiko, who had exchanged his wide, cuddly aquarium shape for that of a sleek, fit predator, went...
LOCATION Mount Airy, N.C. WHAT'S ON DISPLAY Suit he wore on Matlock, Griffith's childhood slingshot IN THE GIFT SHOP Andy and Opie mouse pads, ties, trivia games, mugs and magnets...
...judge presiding over the Microsoft antitrust trial, wanted help sifting through the labyrinth of technical issues surrounding the case, he turned to Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Lawrence Lessig. If Microsoft is broken up, as is widely expected, Lessig will have provided critical ammunition for the government's slingshot...
...need to change outfits. He was the redeemer, not only for the Chinese but for all the geeks and dorks and pimpled teenage masses that washed up at the theaters to see his action movies. He was David, with spin-kicks and flying leaps more captivating than any slingshot...