Word: blasting
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...Situation Report: Investigators are as near as they're ever going to get to proving a Bin Laden connection in the attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole. They've named the mastermind as a Bin Laden lieutenant who escaped Yemen for Afghanistan before the blast. And Osama, by most accounts, is no micromanager - he provides the money, maintains the networks, issues the fatwas (pseudo-religious decrees to attack Americans all over the world, for example) and then lets his military planners and allies take care of the details. Bin Laden is currently hiding out in the mountains...
...terrorist blast ripped the U.S.S. Cole here...
That’s welcome news to clinicians and patients alike. Traditional cancer treatments-chemotherapy and radiation-are therapeutic blunderbusses; they blast indiscriminately at all fast-growing cells, often destroying healthy tissue along with the tumors. By comparison, the new drugs are like smart bombs that cause minimal collateral damage and trigger relatively few side-effects...
...PAPER INVENTOR: TOSHIBA To recycle printed paper by removing ink chemically is expensive. But by reversing the procedure used to create thermal paper (the waxy stuff used in old fax machines and cash-register receipts), Toshiba engineers figured out a way to make Disappearing Ink, which vanishes with a blast of heat. There goes another excuse for not recycling...
...this week. Can there be too much of a good thing? The idea of that much bone-crunching action on a thirteen-story screen makes me queasy just thinking about it... Did you catch the live Madonna concert webcast on Tuesday night from London's Brixton Academy? What a blast! (You can catch reruns on http://www.msn.co.uk/madonna)... Two proactive students are starting the Backstreet Boys Fan Alliance at Harvard. Future events include a protest against 'NSync in Harvard Yard, a 24-hour music video marathon, and a road trip to TRL. E-mail acasill@fas for more info...