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...Hilary was nonetheless excited and asked Ginny if she could wear a smudge of her glittery pink lip gloss. Sanderson, who also coaches Hilary's basketball team, took the stage and nervously riffled through a stack of note cards. He started off by talking about Lisa Beamer and the crash of Flight 93. Then he said, "Those passengers taught us all something about victory... And this season, you girls have taught me something about victory. You never moaned or groaned or complained, and by continuing to fight on the court, you helped us all forget a little about what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daughter: The 9/11 Kid | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood Sport | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...reason may have come last February. The airlines and the TSA had claimed reinforced doors would keep out hijackers. Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane. The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pilots Packing Heat | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

Luckey argues that aircraft are designed to withstand the minor decompression that might result from bullet holes in the fuselage. According to airplane maker Boeing, even onboard explosions have not caused planes to crash. Luckey says pilots would be physically, psychologically and financially screened before being authorized to pack heat, then trained by the FBI and closely monitored on and off duty. "There isn't a pilot out there who wants to carry a gun," says Luckey. "But a weapon is another piece of emergency equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pilots Packing Heat | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...excess. Soon enough, however, blood glucose levels plummet to the point where our brains may feel woozy, we become excessively hungry and are driven to eat again. Complex carbohydrates, on the other hand, particularly those rich in fiber, do not elicit the same kind of spike-and-crash response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking the Fat Riddle | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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