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Between the inability of lasers to blow up tanks, the general disinterest in using lasers to zap people, and lasers' exceptional ability to make bombardment an expensive and ineffective proposition for enemies, lasers may be shaping up to become one of the few weapons that actually ends up making warfare a bit less warlike.

The preliminary bombardment was stretched over three days initially confined to a limited "slow shoot", building up to a final intense bombardment an hour before the assault and was successful in cutting much of the barbed wire that the Ottomans had placed in front of their position.

That period is the late heavy bombardment, a 200-million-year span that ended about 3.8 billion years ago.

To investigate the influence of ion bombardment, a dual-frequency configuration comprising two r.f.

A forward column of Qaddafi's men retreated westward under intense coalition bombardment, a week to the day since coalition airstrikes and Tomahawk missiles saved Benghazi.

Their impact is almost a form of bombardment, a staccato accumulation of sensation, quantity as much as intensity making a mark.

Things turn semi-Cubist in "Ypres After the First Bombardment," a rather beautiful painting that recalls Gris's orderly refractions of form.

One month into the American bombardment, a vacuum exists in the Pastun-dominated south, where resistance to the radical Islamic Taliban government seems fragmented or nonexistent.

Under ion beam bombardment, a Ga-rich area is created.

For fabrication of the graded anisotropy by light-ion (10-keV He+ ions) bombardment, a monotonically varying ion fluence along a given lateral direction is essential.

**The integration of Dust is ongoing - this week saw a move to make bombardment a less mechanical process in both games.