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...hours in a police cruiser also build a special camaraderie. "He's cool, he's O.K.," said Mike of his police partner as Coleman, pistol drawn, checked out the open door of a warehouse where a burglar alarm was ringing. "He's like a kid brother," says Coleman. "There's nothing we won't talk about -- drugs, booze, sex -- and if he gets in trouble, he'll have to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting The Brakes on Crime | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...short, sturdy stature from just a few ancestors. While these genes may be tough, the genes transferred with them may contain a hidden vulnerability that could allow pests to lay waste to huge areas. Observes plant breeder Garrison Wilkes of the University of Massachusetts at Boston: "Imagine what a burglar could do if he got past the front door of a building and found that all the apartments shared the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Run Low On Food? | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...bank robberies and payroll heists. Much of the crime is vicious. A bunch of street toughs recently murdered an elderly New Zealand tourist and stole his wristwatch after he made a wrong turn and wound up in Soweto after dark. "This is because black people are suffering," a black burglar told a white Johannesburg man as he robbed his house and raped a woman friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Lost Generation | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...blond. She's seductive. She's just killed her husband. Oh, sure, it was probably self-defense: the guy had disguised himself as a burglar, broken into their house and tried to kill her before she plugged him with a .357 Magnum. Still, you know she's trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Dark Deeds, Dangerous Blonds | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...chose neither to flee nor to fall silent but to fight back, Havel was jailed three times for a total of almost five years on the flimsiest of charges. One four-month stretch was served in a cell 12 ft. by 7 ft., which he shared with a burglar. A second imprisonment ended when he nearly died of pneumonia that was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by prison doctors. His last internment, four months of a scheduled eight, was in 1989 for participating in a flower-laying ceremony in memory of a student who set himself afire to protest the 1968 invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VACLAV HAVEL: Dissident To President | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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