Word: weaponeering
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...head of pediatric emergency medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, monitored the behavior of 64 boys, aged 8 to 12, who were asked to wait in an observation room with a desk - in which researchers hid a pair of water pistols and one .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun. (The real weapon was empty - although rigged to feel loaded - and was wired to gauge whether the force placed on the trigger was enough to fire the gun). The boys, who were paired up with one or two friends, were told they should wait there for their parents. Researchers also told the boys...
...Lynch took as his weapon a 1948 list of "reducators" that included President James B. Conant as well as 68 members of the Harvard faculty...
...Bowing, for now, to international pressure Still, the Sharon government is all too aware that air strikes are an ineffective weapon against suicide bombers sent by Islamist groups who have always opposed the peace process and who celebrate martyrdom. So while Israel has reportedly drawn up a list of targets for even heavier air strikes if it is unsatisfied by Arafat's cease-fire efforts, under present circumstances the Jewish State's best hope of stemming the tide of suicide bombings remains Arafat's own security apparatus. Israel has targeted those forces in retaliation for bombings authored by his Islamist...
According to Blake, he and Bakley had walked back to the car after dinner when he recalled that he had left his licensed handgun on a seat in Vitello's. He said he rushed back to retrieve the weapon, which he carried because Bakley said she was being stalked. When he got back to the car, he found her shot and gasping for air. Blake ran for help, first to a nearby house and then to the restaurant. However, while Restivo and his employees at Vitello's remember seeing Blake rush in for help, they do not recall his doubling...
HUMANE LETTERS For using "language of song as a weapon against isolation and indifference...