Word: triggered
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...from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword, you just swing the controller. If you want to aim your gun, you just aim the wand and pull the trigger...
...thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay still. But I've only a couple of seconds left. I squeeze the trigger-"gently," says my instructor, Peter, "so it's a surprise when the gun goes off." Bang! The rifle kicks back into my shoulder, there's a sudden reek of gunpowder, and my focus flies forward as I try (in vain) to follow the bullet to the target. "I think you winged...
...several patients who've been buried alive," says psychiatrist McFarlane, "and it's an overwhelmingly intense experience. You might do everything you can to forget it, but the simplest things can revive the memory." Even a blanket on one's body can trigger the sensation of constriction and its frightening corollary, asphyxiation; darkness can become unbearable...
Gass started his experiments by running a small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
...from 700 families with autism. He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides, opioids and other toxicants. In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal, long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularities in the immune-system cells - at least in the test tube. But he does not regard thimerosal (which has been removed from routine childhood vaccines) as anything like a smoking gun. "There's probably no one trigger that's causing autism from the environmental side," says Pessah, "and there...