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Chuck Yeager's two cracked ribs hurt like hell, but he was darned if a little tumble from a horse in the Mojave Desert was going to stop him from breaking the sound barrier. The U.S. Air Force was counting on him. It was his ninth flight in the experimental rocket plane XS-1, each one having edged closer to Mach 1, the never crossed barrier past which man would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oct. 14, 1947 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...What the hell was that?" shouted Jones. Mitchell called company commander Captain Jorge Melendez one kilometer away by the bridge on the radio. "Rock Six, this is Rock Seven. We got a round fired. It came out of town and detonated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie Rock Strikes Back | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...started to calm down, we were warned that Iraqi special-ops forces were nearby. We put on our helmets and Kevlar vests and hunkered down in our tents. There would be no air cover, given the weather. Our unit couldn't withstand an attack by tanks or grenades-hell, the wind nearly took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Front with the Devil Docs | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

China Beach was best known as an Edenic respite from the hell of combat. During the Vietnam War, thousands of American G.I.s spent their leave surfing the 30-kilometer golden beach near the central coastal city of Danang. Years later, millions of television viewers tuned in to the acclaimed 1980s television drama based on the famed U.S. Army R. and R. base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour: China Beach, Vietnam | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...Dark Man X, n?e Earl Simmons) has a few platinum CDs, including It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, and a tattoo on his back that elegizes his pet dog. Here he plays Tony Fate, a gentleman thief whose latest heist, a handful of black diamonds, gets him in trouble with some mean malefactors (Hawaii-born Mark Dacascos and Kelly Hu). The black diamonds turn out to be plutonium pellets that could Destroy the World. DMX has charisma enough for the job, performing tough scenes and teary ones with equal facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

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