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...session this summer, which had little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded her in the dead of night, took her to a crematorium and told her to fetch bones from the ovens, she almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Steep Price of Gold | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

Flight 93 was the last of the hijacked planes to meet its fate. All three passengers knew about the attacks on the World Trade Center. Did they do what we think they did? Did three strangers on a flight in distress band together to fight their captors and ditch the Boeing 757 before it could harm untold thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...bigger than linebackers. Iverson, 26, a former Virginia high school-quarterback phenom, takes hits without fear. He's developed a jump shot that's excellent from 24 feet away and deadly at midrange. Then there's his speed. In his college days at Georgetown, sports photographers actually had to ditch their autofocus cameras in favor of more sensitive manual equipment--Iverson was showing up as only a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Athlete: Little Big Man | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...ripping through the building's skin and setting its upper floors ablaze. People thought it was a sonic boom, or a construction accident, or freak lightning on a lovely fall day; at worst, a horrible airline accident, a plane losing altitude, out of control, a pilot trying to ditch in the river and missing. But as the gruesome rains came--bits of plane, a tire, office furniture, glass, a hand, a leg, whole bodies, began falling all around--people in the streets all stopped and looked, and fell silent. As the smoke rose, the ash rained gently down, along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Want To Humble An Empire | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...ripping through the building's skin and setting its upper floors ablaze. People thought it was a sonic boom, or a construction accident, or freak lightning on a lovely fall day; at worst, a horrible airline accident, a plane losing altitude, out of control, a pilot trying to ditch in the river and missing. But as the gruesome rains came--bits of plane, a tire, office furniture, glass, a hand, a leg, whole bodies, began falling all around--people in the streets all stopped and looked, and fell silent. As the smoke rose, the ash rained gently down, along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Day of the Attack | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

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