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...Forest Service rangers stealthily approach, an unsuspecting Mexican laborer named Pedro Villa Garcia, 51, stands in a clearing. All around him the hillside is freshly terraced, irrigated by black plastic hoses and dotted with iridescent green cannabis. Villa Garcia peers down the path. Is that a black bear--a common local species--emerging from the morning mist? Suddenly he sees the rangers and dashes off through the brambles. But the police dog, a Belgian Malinois, catches up quickly, sinking its teeth into Villa Garcia's arm. Two rangers wrestle him to the ground and handcuff him. "We're good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted! | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...YORK—An ape of a man with slick black hair and a purple shirt jumps up next to a gun-slinging bandit, the two of them swinging red plastic mallets at young men and women who scatter frantically...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexican Workers Stage Complaints | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

They didn't find him. But the raid did turn up some serious firepower: 50 lbs. of C4 plastic explosives, a cache of rifles hidden in the garden and seven AK-47 magazines wrapped in plastic and sunk into a pile of rotting chicken parts. The soldiers also found a Republican Guard uniform and posters of Saddam, and from a field beyond the house they unearthed a telltale box of star-cluster signal flares. "They initiate ambushes with these," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell. The flares are further evidence that the Tikrit area, home base for Iraq's fallen leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatch: Inside The Hunt For Saddam | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...level, they have been successful. In their recent operations around Tikrit, U.S. soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade--known as the Raiders--have enjoyed several big scores: they helped special forces nab Saddam's trusted aide Abid Hamid Mahmud, seized more than a ton of plastic explosives and hundreds of weapons and uncovered at a farm more than $9 million in cash plus a buried chest of jewels worth more than $1 million that belonged to Saddam's first wife Sajida. But the U.S. forces have been unable to capture Saddam, even as the former Iraqi leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatch: Inside The Hunt For Saddam | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing. Nip/Tuck (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) uses a scalpel and liposuction hose. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean MacNamara (Dylan Walsh) are wealthy Miami plastic surgeons--the former a seductive bad boy, the latter moral but uptight--and this subtle-as-an-implant drama shies away from neither their work's ethical implications nor its grossness. (Don't fix a snack before watching them carve up a patient's face like a radish rosette.) FX aspires to be the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Shop | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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