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Trap is an event that involves shooting at flying clay pigeons, each four inches in diameter, from five adjacent stations. The clay pigeons are thrown from an underground bunker...
Skeet involves shooting at double clay targets, which are thrown at least 65 meters form a high--10-feet-tall--or low--three-feet-tall--house on either side of the range...
...major factor in increased migration and emigration. Fritz argues that the "forced collectivization of the '20s, the ideological purges of the '30s and the ethnic shuffling of perceived Nazi sympathizers during the '40s "caused much displacement and conflict in terms of people of different ethnicities and nationalities thrown together haphazardly. For example, in describing the independence movement in Chechnya, Fritz tells of the conflicts between Chechens, Russians and the Ingush who wanted to unite with North Ossetia, who in turn wanted to unite with South Ossetia which was waging a guerrilla war against Georgia, a nation "consumed by conflicts between...
...that everyone's on a level playing field, get outside and start chillin' with your new toys. But be careful, Harvard students, when throwing your new "Astonishing Flying" machines. As the Aerobie warns, "Remember that any thrown object can cause injury." But we already knew that...
...university. Zhu studied electrical engineering at Beijing's Qinghua University, adroitly joining the Communist Party in 1949, and then worked in the state planning commission. In 1957 he made a speech questioning the party's economic policies. The following year, he was disgraced as a rightist, thrown out of the Communist Party and spent some years in the northeast tending livestock until Deng Xiaoping began looking for people to help carry out his economic reforms. Zhu was rehabilitated in 1978, and rose as an economic planner, largely on his own merit, since he had no base of support...