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...thick with Florida heat and the smell of Budweiser and Cuban cigars, but a chill ran down my skinny little spine when I watched those boys pile onto each other, a writhing mass of heroic, euphoric red, and on that day I fell in love...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE PROMISED LANDE: Ten Years Later, a Journey Back to Where This All Began | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...reports of Cuban cancer patients cured by shark cartilage created a stir in 1993. But a new study of breast- and colorectal-cancer patients in the journal Cancer found that the cartilage didn't help any of them. In fact, it was so toxic, some patients dropped out of the study after a month. --By Sora Song

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders: Jun. 6, 2005 | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...CHARGED. LUIS POSADA CARRILES, 77, anti-Castro Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela, Cuba's close ally, for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies; with illegal entry into the U.S.; by immigration officials; in Washington, D.C. A former CIA operative trained by the U.S. military, he has admitted his role in other terrorist bombings in Havana, and his widely publicized presence in the U.S. over the last two months led to criticism that the U.S. has a double standard on terror suspects. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

When he graduated in 1993, Amerine was commissioned a lieutenant in what had essentially become the world's most muscular police department. His first taste of combat, during a Cuban-refugee riot in Panama in which every member of his unit was wounded, was not even labeled combat. None of his men got Purple Hearts. He was in a hotel in Kazakhstan when word came of the 9/11 attacks. Within weeks his team of 12 special-forces soldiers was dropped behind Taliban lines with little more than weapons, cash and a mission to start a Pashtun insurgency. In one fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class of 9/11 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

CHARGED. LUIS POSADA CARRILES, 77, anti-Castro Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela, Cuba's close ally, for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies; with illegal entry into the U.S.; by immigration officials; in Washington. A former CIA operative trained by the U.S. military, he has admitted his role in other terrorist bombings in Havana, and his widely publicized presence in the U.S. over the past two months has led to criticism that the U.S. has a double standard for terrorism suspects. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 30, 2005 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

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