Word: tails
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...showed videos of a bull being dragged to the ground at a rodeo. An L.E.D. display on its front read “Shame on Mitt Romney,” while a placard saying “Cruelty is not the Olympic spirit” was affixed between its tail lights...
...attack munition--from Boeing. By scrapping complicated procurement rules for this project, the Pentagon was able to keep the price of a JDAM at $27,000, pocket change compared with the $1 million price tag on a single cruise missile like the ones used in the Gulf War. JDAM tail kits are fastened onto standard dumb bombs of varying sizes. The bomb always knows where it is, based on information it gets from the plane or, after it is dropped, from GPS. Its aluminum fins steer it to the target, which is logged into the bomb's computer...
...government, and went straight to the offices of Sinn Fein, a key partner in the province's power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major police operation in which documents were seized and arrests were made across Belfast. Two hundred officers staged raids on half a dozen homes, starting just before dawn. Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont...
Every big carmaker promises that any year now, it will have a fuel-cell car on the road--a vehicle that will cruise silently, spit drinkable water from its tail pipe and provide power to your house when you plug it into the garage. In the meantime, auto manufacturers are putting nanotechnology to work in other ways. Toyota was the first to experiment with strong, lightweight nanocomposite materials in the late 1980s, and U.S. automakers are starting to move nanocomposites out of the lab and into vehicles. General Motors is using advanced plastics to make step assists...
...that the fuel of the future for powering electric cars will be hydrogen. Special fuel cells can combine hydrogen with oxygen to produce electricity, driving a motor that can spin the wheels of the car much more quietly than a gas engine can. The only thing spewing from the tail pipe is water--pure enough to drink. Because fuel cells and electric motors are more compact than bulky internal-combustion engines, the new technology will free up the shape and design of cars...