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...terrifying, but was it terrorism? Was it politically motivated? Part of a well-planned conspiracy? Or was it the action of one angry man acting alone? First Hadayet killed Victoria Hen, 25, who was working at the ticket counter. Then he spun around and shot to death Jacob Aminov, a 46-year-old diamond importer and father of eight who was standing nearby, seeing off friends. This kind of attack--gunfire into an airport crowd--is one of the terror scenarios that El Al security guards train for most frequently. Almost at once, one of them tackled Hadayet with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airport Security: Firing on the Fourth | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

Dear Sir—I was told by another party that your institution conducted an egg laying contest with the result that the leading hen in the contest (a big white hen) made the phenomenal record of 337 eggs in 365 days. If this be true please let me know and if the party to whom this hen belongs will sell eggs from...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...acknowledge your letter of December 6 in regard to the hen which has made such an astounding record as a layer. The contest to which you refer was not conducted by the university. I should think that probably you could get full information in regard to the history of this hen, and also the name of her owner, by addressing the National Poultry Association...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...list of inconsistencies is endless. As far as cruelty is concerned, one need look no further than the life of a battery hen or factory-farmed pig, where death must come as a reprieve. And how is it that no one worries about animals that, for sport and fun, are yanked to their deaths on hooks rammed through their faces - and please let's not hear about cold-blooded animals feeling no pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going in for The Kill | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Forget about including "moderate" Taliban members in a new government in Afghanistan [THE WAR, Oct. 29]. As you noted, to many of us the phrase moderate Taliban is oxymoronic. Why put the fox in the hen house? MAGGIE MCHUGH Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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