Word: stuns
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...Great Depression endured a scare that prompted them to scrimp and save, something the current generation does not do. Now Americans generally believe they are entitled to whatever they want without regard to whether they can afford it. The list of what we have come to consider necessities would stun those from most other parts of the world. Oren Spiegler, Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania...
...billion it has ponied up to broadcast the event for just over a decade.) But for secular audiences, those first few days are also when March Madness is at its maddest, when little schools get their one shot at Goliath. Most will miss, but a few will stun the odds and themselves and in their ragged glory remind us of just how satisfying it can be to hold a slingshot...
Though the Taser has been around for more than 30 years, the brand-name stun gun gained new notoriety last month when Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old student, scuffled with University of Florida police and uttered his now infamous entreaty "Don't tase me, bro!" - just moments before he, in fact, got tased. The rather dramatic incident, captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube, spawned a catchy new anti-establishment anthem, picked up and repeated mostly by college students. But it has also renewed questions about whether Tasers pose any danger, and whether the police are using them...
...idea of tasing simultaneously fascinates and frightens people, it's probably because the technology is a bit of a mystery. "It's harder to understand the science behind [Tasers] than to understand bullets or batons," says Scott Greenwood of the Cincinnati chapter of the ACLU. Tasers are the only stun gun that can be fired from a distance, and they deliver a high-voltage electric shock that momentarily paralyzes victims but doesn't kill them. According to Greenwood, the zap from a Taser is no more harmful than a shot of pepper spray to the face. "[Getting tased] is both...
...court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into a church and one of our number decided to light a jar of plastic flowers." Things got out of hand after that...