Word: weaponeering
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...privately strategists in his camp are ecstatic. They hope that Gore-the-gun-control-crusader will bore into the lead of front runner Bush, whom they view as vulnerable because he opposes mandatory child-safety locks on guns and supports the right of Texans to carry a concealed weapon. Polls show that the massacre at Columbine High School has increased the size of the majority of Americans who favor gun control. Republican women in particular are shifting because of the tragedy. "It is an issue he intends to keep talking about," says Gore campaign chairman Tony Coelho. "He will...
...wasn't just older, cheaper planes that won over Kosovo. The real star of the show was a new but very cheap bomb. While the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a pretty low-tech weapon, its satellite-guided tail fins let a plane at any altitude drop it right on target through clouds, smoke or darkness. At about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke...
Although the showier role belongs to Wyle, who ably trades the blue-blood reserve of ER's Carter for Jobs' loose-limbed swagger, the movie's secret weapon is Anthony Michael Hall, whose work here will startle viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. "This was a huge opportunity for me," says Hall, clearly thrilled at this escape from Ex-Child Star Hell. "I saw it as an incredible gift--a chance to reinvent myself...
...spent his life turning his small body into a large weapon. Born sickly in a San Francisco hospital (his father, a Hong Kong opera singer, was on tour there), he would be burdened with two stigmas that don't become an action hero: an undescended testicle and a female name, Li Jun Fan, which his mother gave him to ward off the evil spirits out to snatch valuable male children. She even pierced one of his ears, because evil spirits always fall for the pierced-ear trick. Lee quickly became obsessed with martial arts and body building and not much...
...Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb, "I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...