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...noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become a nation of pacifists, but the exact opposite might be the case. The photo on this page--one of the first images of dead Americans published during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine--was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

After a Cosgriff wild pitch allowed Hayden to take third and Wayne Russo walked, the Rams put on the exact same double-steal play with the same result. Farkes again cut off Lentz’s throw but was unable to fire the ball home in time to beat Hayden and the Rams went...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rain, Rams Ruin Baseball Home Debut | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become a nation of pacifists, but the exact opposite might be the case. The photo on this page - one of the first images of dead Americans published during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine - was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...posted a message to a newsgroup--a kind of electronic public-access bulletin board--announcing the existence of the "WorldWideWeb (WWW) project." The message included instructions on how to download the very first Web browser from the very first website, http://info.cern.ch. Berners-Lee's computer faithfully logged the exact second the site was launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aug. 6, 1991 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location. For days, a senior White House aide says, the CIA had been conducting an all-sources operation to try to track Saddam's movements. On Wednesday they hit pay dirt. According to the aide, at least one CIA source gave the agency what it thought was "a positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awestruck | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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