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...secretaries, presuming that they would want, as part of their jobs, to join in the imminent suicides (they did not). At 3:30 p.m. on April 30, Hitler and his new wife retired to the anteroom of his private suite and shut the door. Hitler put a cyanide pill between his teeth, then raised a Walther pistol to his temple and fired. For Eva, a cyanide pill was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: There Was Such a Feeling of Joy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered one of the bunker's doctors to inject sedatives into his six children, who had taken refuge with him in the bunker, then they were given poison. Goebbels' wife Magda bit on a cyanide pill, and Goebbels shot her in the back of the head. Then, just like Hitler, he raised his pistol to his own temple and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: There Was Such a Feeling of Joy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...bought 13% of Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company. The Pickens group is now seeking to acquire a majority of the company's stock by offering to purchase it at $54 a share. But Unocal has countered with a new variation of what Wall Street calls the poison-pill defense, in which a target company assumes a heavy debt burden to make itself unpalatable to corporate raiders. In this instance, Unocal said that if Pickens succeeded in buying 50.1% or more of its shares, the company would offer to buy the rest of the stock for $72 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Name Your Poison | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...These guys could always play volleyball,” Ridolfi said. “There was no magic pill or anything like that. I happened to hit them at a time when we have good senior leadership and strong underclassmen...

Author: By Elyse N. Hanson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Volleyball Has New Leadership, Life | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...This is a ?massively multiplayer? game: you play it online, interacting with thousands of other players at the same time. The look and feel of the game are straight from the movies: eerie, surreal, strangely deserted cityscapes, ideally suited for rooftop chase scenes and wire-fu combat. Red pill sold separately. (For PC; $49.99, plus $14.99 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: 5 Video Games Worth Sore Thumbs | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

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