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...ADMIT IT: JOURNALISTS CAN'T STOP WRITING. They are obsessed with the idea that they have something significant to tell the world. Often what they have to say may be less than earthshaking. At other times, they can knock your hat off. My hat is off to four TIME staff members whose obsessions have produced new books that you will be hearing about in the next few weeks...
...makeshift stake, a rock somebody found on the ground. It was a race to reach the stake, but as soon as someone reached the final goal, we changed the rules. The game became Killer Croquet. If you hit the stake first, you were poison, and your goal was to knock out every other player permanently Hitting another ball meant death for your opponent. Hitting a wicket meant suicide...
...folded the newspaper and put it in a basket, purchased from the Port Antonio marketplace. Also in the basket was a broken croquet ball. After hitting the final stake in one game, a player tried to knock the ball clear across the field, where another player grappled with a difficult wicket. The thrill of victory surpassing, just for a moment, his vacation sluggishness, he whacked the ball so hard it split...
...nickname "Berkeley Berzerkly," he has maintained a steadfastly critical military posture during his 22 years as Congressman from Oakland, California. It was Dellums who consistently slashed away at Defense expenditures, voted to cut the number of B-2 bombers down to 20 when the Pentagon wanted 130, helped knock back the budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative and voted to trim U.S. military presence in Europe. His mantra: some of the billions spent on defense could be better spent elsewhere -- such as on the poor and the disadvantaged...
...tell by examining the metal that was torn apart. Was it a big explosion that moved a lot of things, or was it a high-velocity explosion that rent metal?" Sophisticated plastic explosives tend to shred metal and pulverize concrete, while common substances like dynamite tend to knock walls over and push vehicles around. Once investigators identify the substance, they will try to determine whether it was a homemade explosive, one made from commercially available material or a product of limited availability, like a military-grade explosive. If the material is common, the trail may be colder than...