Word: caps
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...goatherd's son, Mohammad Anwar has been fighting since he was ten. He has never been to school and insists that he is glad not to have to go. With his olive-brown eyes and brown curls peeping out from under his wool cap, he looks like any of the thousands of Afghan boys who loiter, energetic and restless, in Pakistani refugee camps. But there is something different about him. It is not in his face, which is babyish, or his hands, callused and blackened. It is the look behind his eyes, the dulled expression of a seasoned grunt...
...defensive weapon, mace is powerful -- sometimes too much so. The chemical spray leaves damage in some cases, prompting lawsuits against the police and private citizens who use it. But now they are discovering an alternative called Cap-Stun, which can incapacitate attackers in a much more savory fashion -- by spraying a mist of cayenne pepper. The aerosol causes severe smarting of the eyes and prompts breathing spasms when inhaled. The well- seasoned criminal can be disabled for as long as 30 minutes...
...more than 1,000 other agencies have adopted Cap-Stun, which is distributed by Luckey Police Products of Fort Lauderdale. Sizes range from the 2-gal. container for riot use to the personal 1/2-oz. canister (price: $9.95). Gardner Whitcomb, 68, started the company with his wife 13 years ago, and has pushed Cap-Stun ever since as a safe substitute for mace. Whitcomb expects sales to quadruple this year, to $1 million...
...California Lutheran University, of all places, where she will have to finish her master's thesis if she doesn't place well at Binion's. Borger is small and blond, and though she's 28, she looks like a little girl. When she plays, she wears a blue cap that says TOP GUN and smokes long, skinny cigars. All you can see is her little, straight-across mouth under the peak of the cap, and that evil smoke curling...
...through another ballot initiative, Proposition 13, that Californians slashed property taxes 57% in 1978; one year later, they approved a no less important cap on state spending. In the decade that followed, nearly 20 other states adopted similar measures, and Ronald Reagan and George Bush rode the antitax sentiment into the White House...