Word: felling
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...next wrestleback, Odom again wrestled a close bout, but fell short, losing 8-5 to Edinboro's Sahun Shapert. After wrestling in the 149-pound class last year, Odom's solid wrestling throughout the weekend proved he is definitely ready to lead the way at 157-pounds...
...armored personnel carrier and a Merkava tank to rumble up to secure a 500-yd. perimeter. The soldiers traced the attack to a Palestinian police post near the road. They found spent cartridges inside; the police were nowhere to be seen. Dagan ordered the post demolished. As darkness fell, the colonel reopened the three-mile road connecting the Gaza Strip's 5,000 settlers to Israel, but he knew the attackers would be back. "The peak of the confrontation," he says, "is ahead...
...Israeli (that's his name, not a typo), the CEO who co-founded the company, and explained my predicament. He was not amused. In fact, he refused to send me a battery pack. "These devices are intended for indoor, private use," he said, noting that theater and restaurant owners fell into this category. "We don't claim they should be used outside, in public, to interfere with legitimate people using cell phones." So you don't have plans to make a smaller, personal-use cell-phone zapper? I asked him. No, he said. Oh, well...
...invitation, while DME was named the minority technology firm of the year for 1999 by the U.S. Department of Commerce. When he took DME public last June, Dash's net worth reportedly shot up to $30 million--on paper. Then last spring, when Wall Street soured on dotcoms, DME fell on hard times, and investors scurried away. Dash weathered the storm, but DME was forced to lay off more than half its staff. A plan to sell $249 PCs, with free Internet access in New York and New Jersey through a subsidiary, Placesofcolor.com went ahead. But DME's hopes...
...that would become Silicon Valley. Her father was a mathematician and her mother a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her parents raised her, she says, to be "protechnology." Breazeal became captivated by robots at age 8 when she saw Star Wars for the first time. "I just fell in love with the Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming a doctor and an astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly...