Word: replica
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...their realism, they don’t carry gas masks. One of the main arguments for regime change is that Saddam Hussein is developing weapons of mass destruction, but these replica soldiers seem to deny that reality. They show the disconnect between the upcoming war with Iraq and the representation of that war in the world of toys...
...Shanghai Sharks dancers have finished flailing to La Bamba and have sprinted back to their fur-trimmed overcoats. (This arena isn't heated, either.) A giant replica of Yao Ming's No. 15 jersey has been hoisted to the rafters; the starting lineups have been introduced to a working-class crowd of fewer than 2,000 at the Lu Wan Sports Arena. In an egregious performance the home team proceeds to lose to the Guangdong Southern Tigers 130-101. It is the defending champions' third defeat in a row, dropping them to an embarrassing...
...write they will, as Congress returns to wrestle with where to erect the guardrails around new reproductive technologies. There is a near consensus for outlawing what the Raelians claim to be doing--cloning one person's cells in order to grow a genetic replica--on the grounds that the risks are too great and the moral costs too high. But so far, no national ban has been passed because a fierce debate still surrounds other forms of research that borrow some of the same techniques. Supporters of "therapeutic cloning," in which embryos are cloned to harvest their stem cells...
...York, not in British cities where the archetypal bobby goes unarmed. But the Jan. 2 shootings and the gun-crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican dealers, protect their multimillion pound profits with weapons ranging from replica pistols and modified air guns to lethal Uzi submachine guns. Jasper says guns, many smuggled in from the Balkans, are easily bought or rented, and that while the gangs are often homegrown, top killers, or "shottas," are sometimes flown in from Jamaica to carry out assassinations. Although Britain's inner cities...
...sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus. The newer series haven't done as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but last year TNN reportedly paid $364 million for the rights to show reruns of various Trek episodes, even though they have already been aired dozens of times...