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...Iraq the guys jokingly called her Lara Croft because she carried her 9-mm SIG Sauer pistol in a thigh holster and worked out constantly. She was known as a fearless driver in convoys, navigating around obstacles at 90 m.p.h. to ensure that Iraqi insurgents would have no opening to attack. "I'm kind of a timid person, but when I got behind the wheel, it was balls to the wall," she says. The Air Force first lieutenant had chiseled her body with bench presses and squats into a taut 145 lbs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...invasion of privacy, and offering the rest of us a valuable lesson: your mobile phone is more vulnerable than you ever realized. "What you have in your hand is a small, powerful computer connected to a public network," says Aloysius Cheang of the Singapore-based information-security nonprofit SIG^2. The latest generation of phones offer e-mail and Internet access, which create new avenues for hackers or viruses to infiltrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Hilton's Hack Attack | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

...rushing to the front of the first-class cabin and shouting "Police! Police! Police!" I whirled and faced the passengers, with my back to the cockpit door that I am to protect with my life. In these close quarters, I feel confident about only one thing: my Sig Sauer 229 handgun and its hollow-point bullets designed to mushroom inside the human body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life As An Air Cop | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...arms were moving through setting concrete. I hear the pop, pop, pop of his weapon. One round hits my stomach, another my right arm. The last, just below my eye. Trained to keep fighting even if shot, I focus the front sight of my Sig at his heart and pull the trigger repeatedly, riding the recoil. My assailant drops to the floor. I look for my partner and see he has taken down the other attacker. The plane is secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life As An Air Cop | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer board and an associate professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, had nothing but praise for Barnes...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Will Chair Pulitzer Board | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

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