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...ways. Until Ozzy Osbourne let cameras into his living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest. If you are of a certain gender and age, this is the funniest stuff in the world. Knoxville created a new kind of comedy...
...Crimson needs any reminder of Cornell’s traditional competitiveness, it need look no further than the heartbreaking loss it suffered last time Cornell visited the Stadium in 2000. After jumping out to a 28-0 halftime lead, the Big Red stormed back in the second half to stun Harvard...
...guiding than gunplay. Soldiers today are asked more often to keep the peace or defuse demonstrations, and the last thing they want in those situations is to fire a lethal weapon. That's why the Pentagon is spending more and more research-and-development dollars on weapons that stun, scare, entangle or nauseate--anything but kill...
...Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer as the situation warrants. "We're talking about dialing in the penetrating power," he says. "It's the difference between 'Set phasers on stun' and 'Set phasers on kill...
...science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the PEP travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies in San Diego, that transmits a powerful electric current along a beam of ultraviolet...