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Though the policemen still wear shoulder patches embroidered PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Beating Swords into Billy Clubs | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...door was locked. So I pulled out my revolver and knocked. When I heard the click of the latch, I rammed the door with my left shoulder and pushed cold steel into the guy's face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

During one of her routine dives off the coast of Heron Island, Australia, Keasy encountered more than she had reckoned with. As she filmed her underwater subjects, a four-foot, olive-green sea snake wrapped around her ankles, coiled around her torso and slithered over her shoulder...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

Like many Harvard students, I have lost a loved one to cancer. My friend died bravely, with her passion for life undimmed. Her lover lent her his shoulder on moonlit "drags" around their hillside farm. He spent sleepless nights in a shared bed, massaging her into brief respites from excruciating pain. They--and all who loved this woman--shared not necrophilia, but its antithesis, a celebration of living that continued until she could live no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Love Story' is Nothing to Laugh About | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

...feel like the state is treating us maturely," he says. "It's like drinking in high school, drinking while looking over your shoulder...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Alcohol Policy Poses Threat to Students' Social Life | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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