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...back of a humvee on patrol in Baghdad; Michael instinctively grabbed hold of it to throw it out. Jim, who was sitting next to him, saw it explode as Michael cupped his hand around it. The next image Jim recalled was Michael's right arm, raised up and handless. Jim had been hit by shrapnel in the abdomen, where his armored vest ended, in an arm and finger, and below both knees. Private Orion Jenks, 22, suffered a broken leg, and Private First Class Jim Beverly, 19, lost teeth and lacerated his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened That Day on Patrol | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...confesses that their voluptuous daughter is not his. He smothers the wife and gets the daughter drunk at the funeral, then rapes her. Once she learns of her true genealogy, she becomes his lover, in spite of his hand getting mangled in an unrelated, purely sensational work accident. Now handless, the cuckold finds the real father and tricks him into raping his own daughter. Then there appears to be some sort of twist, sending the amputee to prison where he hangs himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living La Vida Perversa | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

...finishing area where makeup and nails are applied, a scene both horrible and erotic confronts my eyes: dangling from chains from the ceiling are seven headless, footless, handless dolls of varying shapes of female perfection. They sway back and forth, hypnotizing me - until I notice that seated behind me are five of their silicone sisters. Startled, I turn to look them in the eyes. Maureen Kelly, a 40-ish California blond with a rock 'n' roll outlook and a cat tattoo on her ankle, laughs at my discomfort. She does makeup and dresses the dolls. "See that one?" she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...headless, handless body of a woman covered with green algae was fished out of a lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coroners Who Miss All the Clues | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...became a rats' alley of pimps and porn), to the now disappearing bric-a-brac shops and bookstalls that used to line Fourth Avenue from the Bowery to Union Square. He spent these sojourns sorting through boxes of old embrowned photos, picking over trays of shells or handless watches, haunting the penny arcades, gazing mildly through shop windows at working girls whom he would never approach -a flaneur, not of self-display but of urban reverie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Linking Memory and Reality | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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