Word: weaponeering
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...caught even glancing down when yours pings. When college students meet for coffee, their cell phones are out on the table, windows facing up. Among the most e-mailed stories in the New York Times a couple of weeks back was one about the perfect vigilante weapon for the modern age: the cell-phone jammer, which silences signals within 30 feet. It's illegal and surely irresistible for commuters who still prefer to read objects with pages, undisturbed by the conference calls of their fellow travelers...
...quality that reached deep into ‘Peanuts’; she was an adult in a child-shaped body. In Norse mythology, dwarfs, present at the creation, representing order and reason, had magic powers to fashion a god’s or hero’s life-partner weapon...Frieda, present at the creation of ‘Peanuts,’ helped to forge Schulz’s greatest instrument: his characters’ union of constrained size with irreducible strength.” While it is true that Schulz wanted his characters to be intelligent beyond their...
...what destruction it was. The head of the city’s compensation commission estimated that Operation Phantom Fury destroyed roughly 70 percent of the city’s buildings. Allegations that the US used white phosphorous as a chemical weapon surfaced soon after. While officials initially denied that the shells were used in an illegal way (according to international law, white phosphorous can be used to illuminate terrain, but not against individuals), they were forced to modify their position a year later when a military magazine revealed that troops had used it to “flush out?...
...says. “Sometimes it might be passing, rebounding, defense, scoring—I’m just going to try to do what the team needs that game.” His adaptability, coupled with his boundless energy on the court, could prove to be a major weapon in Lin’s athletic arsenal. These skills would be especially dangerous for the Crimson’s opposition if Lin continues to gain experience and composure over Harvard’s first few games, becoming more able to channel and control his intensity...
...lack of depth finally got the best of Harvard’s men, as they dropped six of their last eight Ivy matches to close out the season. But one year later, the Crimson finds itself ready to jump on the hardwood with a surprising new weapon in its artillery: a deep bench.Bolstered by a promising freshman class and a deep sophomore unit with one year of Ivy League play under its belt, the team will look to incorporate its youth in the new up-tempo playing style that Amaker has installed...