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...wasn't long before he began feeling that a .22 was insufficient firepower. "A deuce-deuce doesn't seem like it do anything." He and a friend tried a .357 magnum, aiming it at a dog. They missed the animal, but the kick was so strong, "it threw both of us back against the wall." He settled...
...increasing number of police departments have equipped their officers with bulletproof vests. Now drug dealers are following the lead. Over the past few years, police in Washington and other cities have noticed an upsurge in hoodlums clad in "soft body armor" capable of stopping a shot from a .357 Magnum, to say nothing of less powerful police sidearms...
...publishing the Thesis Network code of ethics for a particular reason. You see, I'm starting my own magnum opus next semester, and I'm going to be needing a little network...
...most terrifying moments, though, came not in some far-off jungle but in New York City in 1981 when he was interviewing a 14-year-old mugger known as "Baby Love." "When I held out my hand to say goodbye, the kid drew a Magnum on me," Wilde recalls. "I told him if he killed me, he wouldn't get into TIME." "Right on, Mr. James, right on," said Baby Love and put the gun away...
...1950s, the photojournalist was monarch of all he surveyed. No medium other than photojournalism challenged the status of the great picture magazines like LIFE and Look. The best photojournalists who survived World War II and then Korea were acknowledged giants. The 1947 founding of the photographers' cooperative Magnum had established the principle that picture takers should own the rights to their work. (Previously, rights had belonged to whoever commissioned a project.) Photojournalism could even claim a | theoretical foundation, as in Henri Cartier-Bresson's idea of the photographer as instant organizer of reality...