Word: weaponize
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...safe without all that Giuliani vindictiveness and soap-opera strife. (Giuliani and his estranged wife have been fighting about whether his girlfriend can visit Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence. Even New York is getting sick of it.) And Bloomberg's fortune--estimated at $4 billion--isn't his only weapon. John McCain, the most popular politician in the country right now, tells TIME that he will be stumping for Bloomberg. "I hope and intend to campaign for Michael," says the Arizona Senator, who got 43% of the vote in the New York primary last fall...
...further shattered Japan's disintegrating confidence that it is immune from the kind of senseless violence it associates with the U.S. It was the worst mass killing of schoolchildren in Japan's history, but only the latest in a series of brutal crimes where a knife is often the weapon of choice (gun ownership is outlawed). "Schools were always regarded as sacred zones, but not anymore," says Yo Yoshino, who lives near the Ikeda school and tutored some of its pupils at an independent "cram" school...
...days. Through May, runs per game were down from 10.62 last season to 9.57 this season. Most of the credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left...
...addition, sophomore Amy Bei claimed Second Team All-Ivy honors in the sabre, further demonstrating the great strides the Harvard women have made in just their second year competing with that weapon...
...mirror, 75 percent of the boys found the real gun in the desk drawers, and most of those who found it picked it up and handled it. Among the boys who found the real gun, one third pulled the trigger with enough force to fire the weapon. Almost all the boys who handled the gun had some gun safety training, which emphasizes the importance of leaving guns alone and finding an adult to put the gun away...