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...Note: The bridge is too long for the flashlight to be thrown across it. The flashlight cannot shine a long distance. No one can be carried. There are no tricks...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: MATCH WITS WITH MCKINSEY | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Four men want to cross a narrow bridge at night, but they only have one flashlight. Only two people can cross at once, and since it is dark, one of them must have the light. When people walk together they must walk at the pace of the slower person. Each man walks at the following pace...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: MATCH WITS WITH MCKINSEY | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...time lawmen arrived in Murphy, however, Rudolph had stopped at the local grocery to stock up on raisins, trail mix and eight packs of flashlight batteries. Then, apparently on foot, he vanished, leading more than 100 federal agents and local officers on a manhunt across rugged terrain right out of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain. Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Manhunt | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...finds herself facing the abyss that lies between Jennifer's seemingly ideal life and her own drab existence. "Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me," the cop says, "trying to reveal what I don't want to see." And this, of course, is Amis' mode as well: to shine a flashlight on our seamy undersides and see what crawls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Darker Shade Of Noir | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Boulder police are discovering that when it comes to the stalled 13-month JONBENET RAMSEY murder investigation, starting from scratch has its benefits. Cops had long suspected that a weighty black flashlight was used to inflict the fatal 8-in. head wound on the six-year-old beauty queen after she was garroted. The flashlight was spotted on the kitchen counter of the Ramseys' home on the morning that JonBenet's body was found, but then disappeared. Some investigators dismissed it as belonging to a police officer. But now, TIME has learned, the potentially vital piece of evidence has turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ramsey Case | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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