Word: thinning
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Vaillancourt—arguably the team’s fastest skater—used the Olympic-sized sheet at the Whittemore Center to her advantage all game long, skating past defenders and spreading the opposing formations thin to create scoring chances for herself and her teammates...
...employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state government web site last week-to determine how to deploy money according to the potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources are spread too thin, they are useless, says Chertoff: "One hazmat suit in every town does nobody any good." Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas has a different take. "If we are just safe in the urban areas and not in the heartland then America is not safe," he says. If Chertoff doesn...
...army's Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early stages of the operation unfold smoothly. One team of troops stops on the second floor, the other continues to the third, where they place explosive charges against a thin wooden apartment door. Two booms in quick succession echo in the concrete stairwell. The doors shatter inward in a storm of wooden splinters, and the Iraqi and American troops, identically outfitted with US-made M4 carbines, night-vision goggles, boots, uniforms and body armor, burst...
...children; before long one of them reveals that Tamimi had been in the apartment moments before the troops rushed in. "He's still here," the officer tells the Americans. Soon a Green Beret is heard yelling and laughing in the kitchen. Under the sink he'd kicked a thin wall. Behind it was Tamimi, a thin sketch of a man, curled into a ball...
...faculty are rewarded as much for communicating with ordinary citizens as academics; moving knowledge beyond the printed word to other media more people consume, from film, radio, television and the internet to posters, cartoons, and popular art; stressing the teaching of knowledge production as much as consumption to thin the dividing lines between knowledge producers and consumers; making education a lifestyle rather than a passing period in one’s life by moving education into arenas beyond schools, proliferating reading, writing, and science clubs, provocative radio debates and lectures, scholarly film festivals, and more...