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...works!) There's a pretty cool demonstration of "trajectory analysis," in which Salinger and Whitman determine the angle of an assassin's bullet by poking sticks through a perforated wall, and a Holmesian moment when Salinger, examining the impression a man's shoe has left in some dirt, says, "I've seen that print before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...self-deprecating laugh. But the last of the nearly 2 million men ordered to serve in the Vietnam-era military before conscription ended in 1973 still impresses 19-year-old soldiers. "Most of them are surprised I'm still breathing, because in their minds I'm older than dirt," the fit 55-year-old says. "But they're even more surprised when they find out this dinosaur can still move around pretty darn quick." (View images of 100 years of the Army Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Last Draftee: "I'm a Relic" | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...dazzle of the digital age, never forget the essential economic undertaking: busting rocks and moving dirt. You can't have Silicon Valley without first digging up the silicon, and even the smartest building starts out as a hole in the ground. So the news that Caterpillar is laying off 5,000 workers--bringing its total of recent layoffs to 20,000--only confirms that the economic contagion is spreading, from the executive floors of high finance to the bedrock world of tractors and dump trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...nine family members followed, carrying the two other wounded children and their grandmother. "I couldn't tell if Suwad and Amal were still breathing, but there was still a chance they might be alive," says Abed Rabu. "As we walked up the road, the soldiers shot at the dirt around our feet." Abed Rabu says he carried his daughters more than a mile. By the time they reached the hospital, the girls were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices from The Rubble | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...core, Rockwell's Imagination Playground simply gives children more stuff to do with sand and water. "Kids need to dig in the dirt, take risks, fall down and get back up," Benepe says. "That's the only way to teach them how to work together and build the great cities of the future." Or, at the very least, the next cool playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Playground: Bye, Jungle Gym | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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