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--In addition to rowing, crewmen could move the boat by pushing poles into the river's bottom

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantastic Voyage | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Firing from about 20 feet away, the assassins gave Qadir no chance for escape. His driver, Jaffa, floored the accelerator as high-velocity bullets sliced through the windscreen and panels of the 4x4, hitting Qadir in the head. Turning wildly to the right, the vehicle collided with metal poles lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killing in Kabul | 7/6/2002 | See Source »

Part of the danger comes from pests that carry such illnesses as malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease, which are expanding their ranges from the tropics toward the poles or to higher altitudes. Parasites like warm weather too: a tiny protozoan that breeds between the abdominal scales of monarch butterflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Frogs, Fewer Monarchs | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

They are still watching "Top Hat" today (you did rent that cassette, didn't you?). After his death at 88 on June 22, 1987, Astaire never vanished, never even dimmed, from popular esteem. He became the icon for what was once the aristocracy of popular culture. He surely represents that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

After Secretary of State Colin Powell's April trip to the region, the U.S. had hoped by this month to have convened a regional conference to promote a new peace. But that plan has been shelved - there is simply insufficient common ground between the Sharon government and all of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Can't Give His Mideast Speech | 6/21/2002 | See Source »

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