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...Marines must also confront the increasingly aggressive Kosovo Liberation Army. A standoff last week with 116 K.L.A. fighters over their right to be armed ended only when Cobra helicopter gunships and other Marine firepower moved in. The rebels gave up more than 100 rifles, 37 blocks of TNT and other materiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping The Peace: Boots on the Ground | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Farmer, whose younger brother is the professional wrestler Cobra on World Championship Wrestling, says that he balances his work with action films...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...been easy, he admits. Even the saintly Albert Schweitzer, who went out of his way to avoid stepping on bugs, didn't hesitate to shoot the beings whose distinguishing characteristics are a slithering gait, a forked tongue and hypodermic-needle fangs that can (if they belong to Australia's cobra-like inland taipan) deliver enough venom in a single bite to kill 200,000 mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN PRAISE OF SNAKES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...there were constructed between 1460 B.C. and 1200 B.C., during the relatively brief period when Egypt ruled Nubia. Kendall believes the Egyptians chose this particular craggy hill for a royal sanctuary because, when seen from a distance, Jebel Barkal's silhouette resembles, even today, a crown adorned with a cobra, which is a symbol of royal power. The Egyptians believed Jebel Barkal to be a prime residence of the god Amun, the bestower of royal authority--a notion that was later taken up by the Nubians. About 730 B.C., when the Nubians rose up and conquered Egypt, establishing what became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NILE'S OTHER KINGDOM | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Peter Pan Grows Up | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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