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...established its terrorist bona fides in the 1980s by kidnapping some 50 foreigners in Lebanon, including 18 U.S. citizens, and killing two of them, notably CIA station chief William Buckley. The group's global reach was achieved perhaps in 1985 with a suspected connection to the saga of TWA Flight 847, in which hijackers shot dead a U.S. Navy diver and dumped him onto a Beirut tarmac. In 1992 Hizballah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29, and, in 1994, a Jewish cultural center there, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Middle East Crisis Isn't Really About Terrorism | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...continuous ramp that leads you through a series of adventures," were an inspiration for a new playground he's working on. Joe Ragsdale, who teaches landscape architecture at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, says that every year his students come up with different ways to provide ideal flight paths for intrepid skaters. "Skate parks have come of age," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All in the Swoop | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

...passage, where Steve hides out with Anne's sturdy, Czech-American parents out in the heartland. But the movie smartly yanks itself back down into the murk, and ends with a sensational shot, in which the camera peers down a four-story stairwell, and Walt falls from the top flight, his body hitting and caroming off each railing. (Give a little wow of appreciation for the stunt crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Mann | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...parts for state-of-the-art radios, and who eventually kills a cop and is tracked into the city sewers. But "Mann's contribution was considerable," the Basinger book tells us. "It seems that he did the location filming with Richard Basehart, the final sequence of his flight through the sewers, the night fight between Basehart and Scott Brady and a scene in which the wounded criminal removes the bullet himself with amazing sangfroid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Mann | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...Once we got to the hospital, I met Abou Alawi, along with many others. At least 1,350 refugees are crammed into the small hospital, according to the Lebanese Red Cross and hospital employees. Their stories are a litany of fear, flight and desperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Diary: Fleeing Bint Jbeil | 7/25/2006 | See Source »

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