Word: panic
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...Jeeps. So he and his mates came up with the (road approved) Hammer, a Hummer replica on a Nissan chassis. Then, one day, they sat down with paper, pen and ruler and conceived the Blizzard. Which in turn begat their pi?ce de r?sistance (and Watson's own ride): the Panic Truck...
...make a military version of the Blizzard (it wants to buy 100): "They liked the fact that they're really easy to work on and parts are easy to come by," says Watson. Some Australian ex-soldiers saw the prototype and, he recalls, said, "'Can you build us a panic truck?' 'What's that?' 'You know, if anything goes down, you can panic, get in it and go.'" So into a camouflage-painted Blizzard went a GPS navigation system, two-way radio, radar, spaces for food, water, fuel and a nuclear-biological-chemical air filter ("You can pressurize the cabin...
...sudden panic swept through the crowd and it surged away from the site, stumbling over the foot-high debris in the street. An unexploded missile? Israeli jets coming back? Moments later they cautiously returned as a fireman helped by dozens of youths unfurled a hose pipe and begins dousing the flames. But who or what was the target of this devastating air strike...
...mood in Damascus, home to a major faction of Hizballah's leadership, is undeniably tense. But the full-on panic of last fall - when local commentators seemed to calculate hourly updates on the odds of a U.S. invasion - is, so far, largely absent. The U.S. and Israel seem as anxious as officials here are to avoid open conflict; that relative security makes for a safely defiant atmosphere. Hizballah sympathizers take to the streets with bullhorns, engaging bystanders in an angry, fevered call-and-response drawn from party slogans or the latest news. Motorcycles and cars sport yellow-and-green Hizballah...
...been hard-pressed to disseminate a warning in the roughly 30 minutes it took the tsunami to reach the beach. "It's not enough just to tell people," says Fauzi. "If they are not prepared and don't know what to do, you could create even more confusion and panic...