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...family's greatest treasures. One shows Thom clowning around in a red-checked kaffiyeh under a camouflage net. Another portrays him standing in his tent, an M-16 on his arm and a cigarette hanging jauntily from his mouth. Several others show his light armored vehicle, hauntingly dubbed "Blaze of Glory." Painted on one side is a cartoon of an armed Saddam Hussein atop a camel, his body framed within the cross hairs. Says Dan Bartok, Thom's boss back when he spent a summer fighting fires for the U.S. Forest Service: "We figure he'd have pulled the mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front: War's Real Cost | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...darken skies as far east as Afghanistan and northern India. After 30 days, smoke could cover an area half the size of the U.S. But because oil gushes naturally to the surface in most Kuwaiti wells, with no need of pumping, it will go on feeding a blaze until someone puts it out -- months or years later, depending on how long the war lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A War Against the Earth | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...many people, body building is a bizarre pseudo sport: part weight lifting, part boylesque. It stands in that curious crossroads of exhibition and self-flagellation where Narcissus meets the Nautilus. If Schwarzenegger really thought this trail would lead to Hollywood, he would have to blaze it himself. Except for Steve Reeves, the Hercules of cut-rate '60s epics, few body builders had been able to work up so much as a sweat in pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Brawn | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Armed with fire extinguishers, a small group of residents put the fire out before the fire department arrived on the scene, said Imraan Coovadia '92, who helped put out the blaze. There were no injuries, students said...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Adams House Fire Forces Evacuation | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Larry J. Restieri '90 and Chris S. Bentley '90 are trying to blaze a trail to the top in the music industry--not as executives at Capitol and Columbia, but as guitarist and bass player for The Barley Boys. The Barley Boys are an up-and-coming progressive rock quartet including lead singer Scott Whelehan and drummer Tim Barnes, both of whom graduated last spring, from Dartmouth and Hampden-Sydney...

Author: By Mary E. Dibbern, | Title: Breaking with Tradition | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

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