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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turned left and headed for Lampe Drugs, a family operation since 1940. Across the street at Faeth's, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Faeth family catered to customers in a cigar shop where you can sip a cold Pabst for a buck, buy a box of shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids off for a soda and know they're safer than if you'd tied them to a tree. Just up Avenue G., Patty Tucker, a 66-year-old widow who moved down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Fort Madison, Iowa: The Battle of Downtown | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...settled in front of the TV when he had the prickly sensation that somebody was watching him. He looked up and saw four pairs of eyes staring through the window. It took a while for Robert, who is still recovering from a triple coronary bypass, to fetch the shotgun now kept by the door, and by that time, the prowlers had vanished. Since then, Helen seldom ventures into the yard, even in daylight, without her 9-mm pistol. "I'm no racist. Why, I have a Mexican daughter-in-law," says Helen, 78, a stocky woman with the tenacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Clash | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...contests have never before reached so low a depth of degradation as this." The Democrats, desperate for a sexual rebuttal, came up with the story that Blaine had had premarital relations with his wife, and then, according to the Indianapolis Sentinel, "only married her at the muzzle of a shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaah! When Campaigns Were Really Dirty | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...late this year from Bungie, is building buzz for its amazing graphics, rumored to be the most realistic ever. In one exciting sequence, you and your buddies team up to man different posts on a tanklike military transport--one person driving, another at the big gun, a third riding shotgun. Cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief At E3 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...three-quarters" prepared for the next Columbine. Last month, the local high school was the stage for a hostage drill complete with blaring fire alarms, 60 kids from Junior ROTC playing the wounded and scared, and an officer portraying a revenge-seeking killer, firing blanks from a shotgun. Braswell's team of officers had to push through waves of fleeing, panicked students and step over wounded children tugging at their pant legs crying "Help me!" Says Braswell: "From Columbine, we've learned that you have no choice but to go in and stop the carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready and Waiting | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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