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...that I am getting all my cop questions answered, I ask him whether most officers wear bullet-proof vests...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALKING THE BEAT | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

Hitting a bullet with a bullet is never easy, but when you?ve spent $15 billion trying, you might expect better than a 0-5 success rate. The military today recorded the fifth consecutive miss in testing of the costly THAAD anti-missile system. A booster rocket failure resulted in the Lockheed-built Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile's failing to intercept a Hera test missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Miss Is Military Mess | 5/12/1998 | See Source »

...grew more brazen, attacking Serb police and military camps. Four rebels maintaining a checkpoint at the border village of Smonica two weeks ago were cocky with confidence they could take on the Serbs. "I hate them so much that if I fired my gun up in the air, the bullet would find its own way right between some Serb's eyes," said one of the guards, cradling his rifle. "Every day people come to me on their knees and beg me to give them weapons to fight," said another, a tough guy in sneakers, camouflage fatigues and a red Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo Smolders | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...always been waiting for the magic bullet," says Dr. Fernando Borges of the Florida Impotency Center in St. Petersburg, where he has been working with sexually dysfunctional patients for 21 years. "This," he says, "is pretty close to the magic bullet." The very day Viagra became available, Dr. John Stripling, an Atlanta urologist, churned out 300 prescriptions with the help of a rubber stamp he had had the foresight to purchase. At the Urology Health Center in New Port Richey, Fla., which participated in the drug's clinical trials, the waiting time to see a doctor for a Viagra consultation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...dozens of apartments, children ran out onto the balcony chanting, "Brother Bill, make the peace! Brother Bill, make the peace!" He heard, as did the shooters. Three more shots were fired that night, and peace was declared. "It's like if Brother Bill is willing to take a bullet because he loves you that much, it makes it harder for you to hate the other side," says Antonio, a 26-year-old gang member. "I think that's why the shooting stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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