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...time she reached the first buoy, however, Shoemaker had been swallowed up by the pack...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shoemaker Takes 21st at World Intercollegiate Championships | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...meantime, 1st Cavalry commanders are trying unconventional techniques. When a raid turned up a huge cache of contraband cigarettes, Formica recognized an opportunity for outreach. He had the packs distributed with special wraps printed with hotline numbers, an exhortation to report suspicious characters and the promise of a reward. A smoker called in the first bit of intelligence last week, Formica says. "Here's something you don't hear every day," he says, "but that pack of cigarettes may have saved some lives." --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton/Baghdad

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Iraqis Will Be Our Eyes And Ears. This Is Their Country | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

Fahrenheit 9/11 may also be branded as the film that made an overblown case against the Bush team. Certainly defenders of the Iraq war are already casting it that way. Limbaugh calls it "a pack of lies." In the online publication Slate, Christopher Hitchens wrote that it was "a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness." Even liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, an opponent of the war, told his readers that he "recoiled from Moore's methodology." To mount fast responses to critics like those, Moore has organized a "war room" overseen by former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According To Michael | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...company's president, Margit Novack, spent several days with Sigmond assiduously placing green and red stickers on items indicating what would go and what would stay. Senior-move managers sort, pack and unpack, and dispose of unwanted items, though they let the movers do the heavy lifting. Think of them as moving angels. When it was finally time for Sigmond to pack up, his son and Novack took control while he jetted off to the west coast to visit friends. "By the time I got back, the new apartment was all set up, so I could walk in the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving a Lifetime | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Warren keeps measurements of all the closets, drawers and wall space of several retirement communities that she works with on a regular basis. "If there's no room for the china cabinet in the new apartment, what do you do with your three sets of china?" she says. "Why pack the contents of the garage when you won't even need a toolbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving a Lifetime | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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