Word: zap
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...trigger this process in the arteries that feed the heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower scores...
...joined 13 other celebrities--including former President Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Taylor and Ray Bradbury--who allowed their tabbies to pose for the 1986 Purina Cat Chow Celebrity Cat Calendar in exchange for a donation to the charity of their choice. "They are my kids," says Chamberlain of Zip and Zap, his two domestic short-hair kittens. "They give one a feeling of calmness." Then he meows, "Maybe Patrick Ewing should...
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...published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...
...Earth, they incinerate an entire family and flush their ashes down the swimming-pool drain. In The War of the Worlds, the aliens turn their deadly rays on everything in sight. "Welcome to California!" say three friendly Chamber of Commerce types as they walk toward the Martian craft. Zap! More ashes. A minister tries to soothe them with the 23rd Psalm. Zap again! Luckily (or unluckily, as Vegaites might view it), they had not got their flu shots before they left home, and they succumb to our microbe-rich...