Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TATP is one of the most sensitive explosives known," says a U.S. government bomb expert. "Drop something on it or rub something against it, and it can go. He was taking a big chance just stomping on it." There is no commercial market for TATP; it's too hard to handle. Terrorists increasingly favor it because recipes are all over the Internet, the ingredients can be found in any pharmacy, it's hard to detect, and mules like Reid are going to die anyway...
...will depart with my name on a diploma (to match my old pair of souvenir mouse ears), and though I won’t know the words to our alma mater, I will still remember the words to the songs at every Disney attraction. My children may never rub the foot of John Harvard, but I’ll see to it that they give Mickey Mouse a great...
...surgical purity of Kinetic and Op art, until we reach works inspired by '60s politics. Like artists before World War I, Jean Jacques Lebel draws on images of lowlife, but in Parfum Gréve Générale, bonne odeur (1960), pretty girls posing in underwear rub elbows with bloody corpses. Jacques de la Villeglé's Boulevard de la Bastille (1969) uses torn posters from the previous year's near-revolution overlaid with depictions of General de Gaulle...
...only politician out to give voters increased homeland security. Officials across the country--many of them, like Davis, up for reelection this year--are scrambling to get tough on terror. In all, 46 states are already debating legislation aimed at improving safety or punishing terrorists. But here's the rub: 43 states have declared significant budget shortfalls for fiscal 2002. Congress approved $8.3 billion for homeland security in December, but only $1.5 billion will be parceled out in state grants. Pols who want the glory of fighting terror are going to have to pay for it themselves...
...more inspired by books and literature than I am by other screenplays. If you surround yourself with great stuff, maybe it’ll rub...