Word: titanium
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...just weeks before he planned to leave his home, Case went in for a routine operation to clear his sinus passages. It ended with titanium plates replacing his sinuses and a blood clot forming in his brain...
...first mission was daunting: to scale a range of steep mountains and set up an observation point overlooking a road the Australians had dubbed Route Titanium, which large numbers of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were using as a way to the Pakistan border. After an eight-hour journey by truck, the men had just three hours to climb the mountain under cover of darkness. For the next three weeks, they lived off the land. The survival skills needed for such operations take years to acquire - and are the source of one SAS nickname, "the chicken stranglers." According...
...Imagine a human head inside [a] cage fastened by four titanium puns that dig into the skull,” Kumin writes in “Inside the Halo.” Initially, Kumin was rendered a quadriplegic by the accident...
...stereophones. Jeremiah now joins the bevy of freshman girls who have also regretted losing something special after a night at the Spee. Gadfly can only hope the reward includes a trip to the Mt. Auburn Street flophouse, where we could really put his headphones’ “titanium-coated high polymer diaphragm” to work...
Employees on the go say jump drives--such as SanDisk's Cruzer Titanium, which costs $129.99--make it easier to share big projects with co-workers when e-mail isn't readily available. Other consultants eschew carrying a laptop altogether, navigating airports (and security) with nothing but high-tech pendants dangling from their necks. --By Paige Bowers