Word: bullets
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...protest the shutdown and threw stones at a passing Israeli car. The dozen or so soldiers trying to control the demonstration fired first in the air and then, when this brought no response, at the girls' legs. One 1 7-year-old girl was hit by a bullet from an automatic rifle. Next day, six students in the adjacent town of Ramallah and four more at Bethlehem University were also wounded, one of them seriously, in similar incidents...
...Lucca, in the first recorded use of explosive-powered metal artillery, gunsmiths have been trying to perfect their weapons. Guns have improved over the centuries-in range, accuracy and deadliness-but their firepower has always depended on the rapid expansion of exploding gases down a tube, which pushes the bullet forward. The maximum speed such gases-and thus the gun's projectile too -can reach is severely constrained. None of the particles in the gases can travel faster than the speed of sound through the gas, at best about 10 km (6 miles...
More than a century ago, visionaries like Jules Verne were suggesting a better way. A bullet-shaped vehicle, they claimed, could be propelled far faster by using powerful electromagnetic fields. Now, as a result of lab work in the U.S. and abroad, the Vernean scheme shows promise of becoming a practical reality with far-reaching consequences: armor-piercing guns that can puncture the toughest steels, and perhaps a whole new era of space launchers...
Mark Fusco whipped a bullet past Demetroulakos for a power-play tally at 15:59, and Burke--who continued to excel--slammed one home on a breakaway despite added red, black and white poundage draped around his legs to close the gap to 5-4 where it remained until 1:44 of the third period...
Bach: Six Trio Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord--Superflute Jean-Pierre Rampal races through these show-pieces faster than a speeding bullet, with more emphasis on the virtuoso than the music. But my, how he dazzles...