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...swarmed along the rooftops and into the street, and the AK-47s bucked in their hands as they fired on full-automatic at the slow-moving trucks. The Iraqis, most of them in loose-fitting, soiled civilian clothes, did not seem to aim at all, but to just shoot and scream and shoot. They sprayed bullets at the convoy and waited for the Americans to drive into their own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Lynch: Book Excerpt: Wrong Turn In The Desert | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

...similar vehicle. On both occasions he had been in his own car and was able to get away. Now, walking down a narrow street toward his home in a middle-class Baghdad neighborhood, the 16-year-old was helpless. "They had me. Either they would take me or shoot me down as I tried to run." The Opel stopped, the rear door swung open, and one of the passengers pointed a pistol at him. Another reached out and dragged Omar in by the collar. Tires squealing, the car pulled away with Omar lying in a heap on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Your Name Can Be a Death Sentence | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...Since late 2004, U.S. military missile-defense forces have been monitoring the skies, ready to move to a higher level of alert and try to shoot down any ballistic missile headed toward the U.S. "We've had the war fighters on the system for almost two years now, 24/7," Army Lieutenant General Larry Dodgen, head of the Army's space and missile defense command, told a Senate panel in April. "We have contingency capabilities that our nation can call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can America's Missile Defense Handle North Korea? | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

...bash the Governor's. "It's like a puppy bill. Of course people are going to support the notion. He's doing his job. Blagojevich is being a Democrat and Democrats like these big social programs," Santos says. "But where are the Republicans with their counter? Do we just shoot it down and wait for another Democratic plan to shoot down, or do we come up with an alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Illinois' Governor Save the Children? | 6/29/2006 | See Source »

Another of Roosevelt's legacies was an unambiguous gift to the future. Teddy was never more himself than when he was outdoors. He loved nature, knew the songs of dozens of birds, loved to ride, climb, hike and shoot. As a boy he wanted to be a naturalist, and as a President he became the first to make environmentalism a political issue. Under the tutelage of his friends--naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir, who convinced Teddy that the Federal Government would be a better protector of parkland than the states, and U.S. Forest Service chief Gifford Pinchot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

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