The United States and the Soviet Union, in their forsaken programs to make germ weapons, focused their bulk production of deadly biological agents on 10 kinds of bacteria, viruses and toxins.
On the positive side of the ledger, Maryland has approved some of the strongest measures in the true meaning of gun control — banning assault weapons, focusing on the mentally ill and firearms, and requiring that gun buyers be fingerprinted and given classes in gun safety and target practice.
Terror during trauma focuses one's attention, strengthening memory for the most salient features of the experience, and occasionally at the expense of less salient ones as the phenomenon of "weapon focus" illustrates.
This logic is akin to the original weapon focus literature (Fawcett, Russell, Peace, & Christie, 2013).
This paper provides an introduction and an extended bibliography to such applications, and briefly presents some relevant case studies about the so-called weapon focus effect, identification in a criminal lineup, and lie detection using eye tracking.
I read an example once that explained the idea of Buddhist self-salvation in a very simple way: If shot with an arrow, don't lay there and demand to know who shot you or the make and model of the weapon; focus instead on how life is now, and learn from this direct and personal experience.
Weapon Focus, Power Attack, and Improved Initiative are good feats for barbarians.
Berrigan also made the threat posed by nuclear weapons the focus of Jonah House's activities.
It is the second possibility that has made this class of weapons the focus of such concern.
Asked if publication of the human genome sequence would allow hostile governments to devise biological weapons or focus on specific populations, Dr. Venter said that "the genome will not provide the ability for targeting any ethnic groups" and that any dangerous knowledge was more likely to lie in the genomes of pathogenic bacteria.
Even if the Syrians don't turn over much of their chemical arsenal, a U.N. blessing of a program to remove the weapons would focus attention on the Syrian stockpile and probably make Assad more careful about provocative new attacks.
