Word: tnt
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...polarizing is not always bad. The Passion of the Christ was $370 million domestic gross' worth of polarizing. And religion--specific, fraught, inflaming religion--can make for involving stories. In March HBO debuts Big Love, about fundamentalist polygamists in Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...
...Watch This Show or We'll Shoot This Kid. Finally, speaking of cradles and violence, TV's crime-procedural addiction continued unabated, this year upping the ante with ghastly, manipulative stories of crime against children, on shows from TNT's Wanted (child rape) to CBS's suburban crime drama Close to Home (abuse, imprisonment, etc.). Baby New Year, watch your back...
...combat. In 2002, the operation involved more than a dozen individuals who spent months and tens of thousands of dollars assembling nearly a ton of explosives. This time, police speculate that only six plotters, including the suicide bombers, may have been involved. Their equipment? A few sticks of TNT, some sacks of ball-bearings, nine-volt batteries, and three backpacks. In 2002 the nearly immediate discovery of key forensic evidence?the chassis number of the car used in the main bombing?started detectives on a trail that would lead them to sweep up all but a few of the plotters...
...latest attacks, they say that the type of explosives and other materials used point to their involvement. Even Ali Imron, now serving a life sentence in a Jakarta jail for his part in the first Bali attacks, shares the view that Azahari has struck again. The use of TNT sticks and nine-volt batteries, Imron told a local paper last week, was classic Azahari...
...exhilarating. The dark, gleaming, rocket-shaped kaiten meaning ?Turning the Course of Destiny?, was a converted torpedo-40 ft. in length and 4 ft. in diameter, at the mid-section, where the cockpit and control panels were located. The kaiten carried a warhead of 1 1/2 tons of TNT, with a force underwater sufficient to sink any ship during World...