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Deep in the southwestern corner of Arizona, the dun-colored desert shudders underfoot as the Army's newest big gun, belching flame and smoke, blasts fire extinguisher-size artillery rounds farther and faster than ever before. Now under development, the Crusader is the world's most fearsome mobile howitzer. It is also among the costliest and heaviest ever built. And because of all that, it may be one of the fattest targets for the Bush Defense Department. Incoming Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is under orders from the new Commander in Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blasting the Crusader | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...months ago, when sibling No. 4 was about to graduate from business school, all nine of us formed an e-mail list to synchronize our schedules. For a while we shared a lot of information quickly and efficiently, but then someone lobbed an online insult, or "flame," and the fire soon raged out of control. Some of us fled. Others stuck around to hose things down. But things were never the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Flame War | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Brian, Michael, Emmett (Peter Paige) and Ted (Scott Lowell)--are, like the women of Sex and the City, a cross section of urban types. Most of them were born after the 1969 Stonewall protests launched the modern gay-rights movement, giving them the choice to stand out or assimilate, flame or simmer. All of them, pushing or just past 30, face the tyranny of age in the Logan's Run-like club scene. And Brian, an irresistible, bed-hopping Peter Pan, is suddenly beset with unwanted responsibility: for his new son (he donated sperm to the lesbians); for Justin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's Here, It's Queer Get Used To It | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...statement through his agent: "We have been living apart for the past month. We sincerely hope we can work out our differences." Separation rumors began swirling when Ford, 58, was photographed following the VH-1/Vogue Fashion Awards sipping champagne in the company of Lara Flynn Boyle, 30, former flame of Jack Nicholson, 63. Ford's agent describes speculation of a tryst as "false and inaccurate." Ford is a little young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 2000 | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Personally, my expectations are high," Bajwa said. "My desire is to light a flame in both the men and the women [so they] can take on all comers on the collegiate circuit...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Past Glory Not Far Off for Squash Teams | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

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