Word: stunning
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...time at high-tech trade shows. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...January and say they will miss the Swiss ski resort's quiet charm. They lament that they often can't tell whether their dinner partner said "four milling daughters" or "40 million dollars" in Manhattan restaurants where the tables are inches apart and the music is set on stun...
...breaches. Despite much-touted mail disinfection, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of anthrax in late November; despite increased security since Sept. 11, airports have allowed people with sharp implements and potential weapons board airplanes. At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, passengers managed to bring cleavers, stun guns and tear gas past security checkpoints; at Logan, a checkpoint was left unmanned while an employee took a break...
...Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters?whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty...
...will be required on certain flights deemed "high risk." Pilots and crew will attend training courses on how to deal with hijackers, and the Transportation Department can authorize the use of weapons in cockpits. (United Airlines is ahead of the curve on that count; this week the company made stun guns available to its pilots...