Word: triggered
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...usually overburdened with modesty, was startled by that finding. He could only hypothesize about why ACT might reduce seizures: "You teach people to walk right up to the moment they seize and watch it." Somehow, he suggests, that helps reduce biochemical arousal in those critical moments before the trigger of a seizure...
...followed the 2002 U.S.A. strategy. She named 12 Olympic veterans to the 20-woman roster, and they have been together since Aug. 1, including 22 games against Triple-A midget (15- and 16-year-olds) boys teams in Alberta. Canada will rely on special teams and aggressive forechecking to trigger a quick-strike offensive attack. "Hayley Wickenheiser-there are some qualities of hers I don't admire, but the way she drives to the net ... it's like a wave coming at you," says Dreyer...
...interior muscle to contend with bruising Big Green forward Elise Morrison. Throughout last season, the Crimson lacked a true offensive and defensive post presence. The result? Harvard outhustled and often outshot slower opponents, but the Crimson fell short—literally—against the towering Morrison and her trigger-happy Dartmouth teammates. “We didn’t really have the inside presence,” Harvard co-captain Maureen McCaffery said. “They guarded us close on the perimeter, and we couldn’t really get shots off and couldn?...
...Under FISA, the spooks needed to show "probable cause" to a secret court before they attached bugs to a suspect's phone lines. All indications are that, under the post-9/11 program, a softer legal trigger was used. How much softer? That's an explosive legal and political mystery. Michael Hayden, the former NSA head who has taken a public role in defending the program but who is not a lawyer, has implied that the NSA officers who were manning the spotter desks had to have a reason to believe that a terrorist plot might be in the works...
...never mind the missing leg. After all, with its high-tech Renegade foot, his new one has made him faster and funnier. Why test fate a second time? Because he loves the military, loves guns and loved his job as a scout. "I'm going back to be a trigger puller, not a bullet catcher," he says, reasoning that the odds of being blown up twice are pretty low. His mom, Rhetta Drennan, is worried but resigned, especially since her daughter is in the Army, in South Korea. "He's happier. He's found his direction in life," she says...