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...came the cheese, four perfect triangles, that were, when laid out next to each other, miraculously, the exact same length as the bread. Tip-to-tip, end-to-end. Next, four tomatoes, one per slice of cheese, and then the lettuce, a fistful (her fistful), before an airy, noisy squirt of mayonnaise that lasted about two and a half seconds. She brought my perfectly engineered sandwich to the register and began to put it into a plastic bag. “That’s okay,” I said, “I don’t need...

Author: By Kevin Hartnett, | Title: What Do You Do? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is He Osama's Best Friend? | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...after a car wreck. Now 17 and recovered, he is the family's living hope for Jessie's recovery. Friends who know Jessie talk about a tough kid, one who can hold his own in debates with grownups about the sun and stars, but who is happy to shoot squirt guns and swing from oak trees. When he got a finger stuck in a hole in the school bus two years ago, he remained calm as firefighters cut away the bus to free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Jessie Arbogast | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Westminster bookstore has created gnomes in the likeness of Tory leader William Hague (hoisting a pint), Home Secretary Jack Straw (armed to squirt weed killer) and PM Tony Blair (big ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When In Gnome | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...guillotine, so the families would be denied a vivid satisfaction; instead they would see someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slippery Slope to Public Executions? | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

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