Word: bullets
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...trial against those four police officers, the cause of death is not up for debate; instead, both the defense and the prosecution will focus on the officers' intent when they pulled their weapons. There's some damning evidence working against the police: Diallo's body was riddled with 19 bullets of the 41 fired in total. And although the officers say they stopped firing well before Diallo fell to the ground, a pathologist hired by the prosecution found a bullet that had traveled from the sole of Diallo's foot up through his leg - a difficult shot to make when...
...Parents of students will bite the bullet and pay for expensive housing for four years--they expect to pay for room and board," he says. "But families have to do this every year, and can't shell out as much. This drives rents up incredibly...
...advocates will remind the public how difficult it is to "hit a bullet with a bullet"; detractors will claim the test proves their claim that the system is a multibillion-dollar waste of time. And Russia will fume at Washington's disregard for the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which sharply limits the deployment of such systems. Still, don't expect that to restrain politicians on both sides of the aisle from lavishing billions of dollars on the program - it's enormously popular on Capitol Hill, and unlikely to be scaled back in an election year no matter how poor...