Just Say NO! to Suicide Bombers!

There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, from the days of the Moon Race. NASA supposedly learned to their horror that ink pens wouldn't work in zero-gravity. In response, they spent millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours, but eventually developed a pen that would write in outer-space, upside-down or at the bottom of the ocean. The Russians, meanwhile, just used pencils.
This $1 million + public-service-announcement currently running on Iraqi television reminded me of that story for some strange reason...