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...Sergeant Robert Paul Rosell, a California National Guardsman who works as a mentor to the Afghan battalion led by Waris and Ahmad, says, "The hardest lesson is getting through the idea of 'one target, one shot.' They tend to go blacko on ammo." Other military trainers call it the "spray and pray" school of target practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Aim At the Taliban | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...Reclaiming new life from old also requires advanced technologies: software systems that can detect metal tolerance, for example, and state-of-the art blasters that literally blow old paint, grease and oil from parts. Consider the flame spray machine Cat uses at Shrewsbury. Inside a tightly sealed booth, a nozzle attached to a robotic arm shoots out a constant spray of what look like white-hot sparks - picture a particularly robust Roman candle - onto a row of four cylinder heads. What it's actually spraying, however, is molten metal, adding a new 1-mm-thick layer of chrome or nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Again | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

...will travel from Paris to Hong Kong in the fall and land in New York City just in time for the holidays. Based on the mythic stories of Neptune and his queen, Cleita, the Van Cleef creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to depict ocean spray and rare aqua colored tourmaline's to evoke the ocean depths. One stunning pendant is composed of onyx and set with diamonds and white gold coral-shaped branches. Other pieces include sea nymph pins encrusted with sapphires and a Poseiden-like creature made of yellow gold and fashioned into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jewels of Paris | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...starting to seem as if the state of young female celebrity has devolved into an endless stream of DUIs, spray tans and Adderall prescriptions, take heart. There is a crop of actresses in the wings who have never been to jail, nor have they been photographed pantyless or passed out. Promises, to these young women, means things you keep, not a rehab in Malibu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Raises Good Girls, Too | 6/15/2007 | See Source »

...harm us--is always risky, so Fischetti decided to isolate just the bacteria-puncturing enzyme and use it to kill bacteria from the outside. So far, he has developed compounds against pneumococcus, streptococcus and anthrax and hopes to eventually treat infected patients by squirting the enzymes in nasal-spray form weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Drug-Resistant Bugs | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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