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the doctors spotted an American soldier on a nearby rooftop. The nurses slid Jessi's hospital bed over to the window so it would be in plain sight. "They wanted them to see me," Jessi said.

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

When he spotted the black Opel driving toward him on a recent evening, Omar Farooq knew he was about to confront his worst fears. Twice that week, the high school student had been chased by gunmen in a similar vehicle. On both occasions he had been in his own car...

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

The old subway turnstiles opened when you slid a token into a very narrow slot on top. Tens of thousands of dirty New York hands pushed them in all day. You could, apparently, put your lips over that slot and, with a hard inhalation, suck a token back up out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Diagnosis Is Cynicism | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

Later that day, spirits aboard the Brunswick and the nine vessels grouped around her rose still higher. The men had spotted a flotilla of five small boats, dispatched from the steamer, coming toward them. It seemed that the promised passage out of the Bering Strait was about to be delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odyssey of the Shenandoah | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

There was another dimension of the young Roosevelt's determined embrace of vigor: his wholehearted encounter with nature, sometimes as a naturalist, sometimes as a hunter. It shaped his life and his enduring image. Nature provided the setting for his struggle to make himself strong, and it opened up a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Self-Made Man | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

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