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First KERRI STRUG saved the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team by sacrificing her ankle in a heroic one-legged vault in 1996. Now the gold medalist is sacrificing her summer to rescue the reputation of the country's interns. Strug has been filing, faxing and copying--and nothing else!--for Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 27, 2001 | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

CONVICTED. RADISLAV KRSTIC, 53, former Bosnian Serb general; of genocide; for the July 1995 killing of more than 7,000 Muslims at the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia; by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal at the Hague. The one-legged (from a mine explosion) ex-general received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 13, 2001 | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

My guess is that Norwood figured, okay, who would I rather have mad at me: Ganske or the President? It?s not a tough question. But I think it?s safe to say the Norwood-Ganske three-legged race team is off for the moment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind the Bush-Norwood Patients' Bill Of Rights Deal | 8/2/2001 | See Source »

But unlike a chimp or any of the other modern apes that amble along on four limbs, kadabba almost certainly walked upright much of the time. The inch-long toe bone makes that clear. Two-legged primates (modern humans included) propel themselves forward by leaving the front part of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Giant Step For Mankind | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

In Thailand, insects used to be popular only in the poor north and northeast provinces. But as farmers and laborers migrated to the cities during the economic boom of the late '80s and early '90s, they brought their yearning for six- and eight-legged creatures with them. Bangkok natives were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craving the Crawlies | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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