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...Soweto formed their own vigilante groups to protect themselves. Police, at first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...
Shaka also developed a battle tactic based on the shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some...
...kidney transplanters owe much of their success to a rapidly emerging science: immunology. Its practitioners devote themselves to the extremely complex task of finding ways of overcoming the body's natural defenses against foreign cells, so that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek...
Taking Heat. Miller insists that he had to "go for broke" in order to change things drastically. He has steadfastly stuck to that tactic, and hubbub follows him like a swarm of hornets. When he left Massachusetts to head the Illinois department of child welfare, he soon alienated the state's social workers, put the child welfare system into a swivet, and was forced to resign. But Pennsylvania quickly hired...
...silly business. Olivia de Havilland could prove her fighting spirit with a word or a glance and not suffer even the tiniest rip in her bodice. Poor Bujold, on the other hand, must come close to being stripped to the waist by Shaw's rapier - a dishonorable dueling tactic that his gallant screen forebears would never have indulged...