Not exact matches
Higher
lead levels were
found in the blood of vultures in the hunting season and in hunting areas, suggesting that the source of the
lead in their blood stream was
lead bullets used for hunting.
The authors provided safety recommendations including conducting a careful reexamination of the allowable
lead levels in individuals who frequent firing ranges for occupational reasons, developing better education around
lead - exposure risks for recreational users, and continuing the push to
find lead - free substitutes for
bullets and primer.
Scientists are
finding that condors face many of the same dangers that stalked the birds 25 years ago, with the main one being
lead bullet fragments that lodge in the flesh of carrion.
Flashing back five years, Transcendence
finds leading A.I. scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) shot down by an anti-technology extremist group; in true comic - book fashion, these unlikely terrorists lace the fired
bullet with radiation, leaving their genius target on his deathbed.
It is this need to
find a cause for every horrifying happening that gives rise to Tom Zoellner's A Safeway in Arizona, which examines the circumstances
leading up to (although not necessarily responsible for) the January 8, 2011, massacre near Tucson that left six people dead and U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded with a
bullet through her brain.
More often than not, I
found myself mobbed in a corner trying to fight my way out in order to get some distance between myself and my foes to try and heal my character, only to end up with a
bullet in the back
leading to my demise.
Guiding a small ship through a harrowing gauntlet of energy blasts and
bullets can
lead to an overabundance of stress and yet I
find it difficult to not admire the sheer creativity and complexity of such patterns.
So don't worry if you
find yourself short on
bullets or missing a knife or razor wire for silent takedowns, you can always count on that brick lying on the street or the
lead piping in the scrapyard.
Carrion - feeding birds
find these remains and, inadvertently, eat the
lead bullets.
I expected to
find the blawgosphere abuzz this morning over yesterday's joint investigative report by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post revealing that hundreds of defendants remain incarcerated even though their convictions came about with the help of a discredited FBI forensic tool known as comparative
bullet -
lead analysis.
And, recently, a couple of researchers
found out that if you take one layer of graphene and two layers and stack them on top of one another, when a large force contacts the graphene on one side, and pushes the two together, that compacting force actually creates a diamond - like bond between the graphene layers, increasing its strength and potentially
leading to next - generation
bullet - proof armors.