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...were able to withstand the penalties we took,” Mazzoleni said. “We come up with two very big goals in the third period off the power play. That was definitely the difference in the game...
...dulled in Pakistan, where a columnist for the Karachi News International wrote last week that "the unraveling of the self-styled Islamic State [Afghanistan], the only one of its kind in the Muslim world, took only seven weeks. The fabric woven with only one strand, religious fervor, could not withstand the pressure of modern technology." For its part, al-Jazeera had repeatedly promoted the Taliban's military prowess. While the network still relentlessly airs stories about the plight of Afghan refugees, it recently showed a program that denounced the Taliban's extremism and gender oppression...
From the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JIHAD, al-Qaeda's guidebook for terror: "BIOLOGICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some kind of microbes, viruses, that can withstand dryness for quite some time and still maintain its capability of multiplying...enough to coat the letter and guarantee it reaches its destination as deadly to the human being, either orally or through a scratch in the skin, and gets him infected with a contagious sickness that resolves into his death...CHEMICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some mustard agent or other poisons. This method is not yet deployed...
...Ming says, "and I figure I must have been a martial artist or a monk in a previous life. It all felt very natural to me." By the age of 17, he could dangle a 23-kg weight from his testicles (a practice intended to perfect his ability to withstand a full-force blow to the groin) and deflect the tip of a spear with his neck. He could sleep standing...
...already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The FAA also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...