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...approximately 5:15 p.m. last Thursday, the victim attempted to separate two men fighting in the sunken area between the Out of Town News newsstand and the T entrance. One of the men then pulled a machete out of his backpack and struck the victim on the left shoulder...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Machete Attacker Eludes Police | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

...economic policies "back-assward." And she stressed her average-Jane image: she let Oprah's cameras follow her to the gym; in her book, she recalls going door to door to run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, with two kids in a wagon and a toddler in a backpack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survivor: Alaska | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...writers also investigated every aspect of the book, from the fantastical creatures to the novel’s setting of Forks to Bella’s backpack (yes, they looked at catalogs). “There’s no detail in the work that isn’t researched,” Stein says...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamping Vampires | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...officials had to concede that they had "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack." What the FBI had were bits and pieces of evidence--handwritten notes on bomb-making techniques, materials that could be used for explosives--that, taken together, hint at the "backpack bombs" used by terrorists in Madrid in 2004 and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Zazi Terrorism Case | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...same week that two other alleged bombing attempts were foiled in Middle America - tells us that post-9/11 security measures, many of them highly controversial, are working. But there is bad news too. Zazi's alleged project, from the training camp in Pakistan to his bomb recipe and backpack delivery system, bears the marks not of some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation. Nor does Zazi appear to be a lone sympathizer or a copycat egged on by an FBI informant. He apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enemy Within: The Making of Najibullah Zazi | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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