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...Despite the likes of Arsenal's Nwankowo Kanu and Chelsea's Celestine Babayaro, the Super Eagles also look poised to crash. Still, no one can chance taking this team lightly: should Argentina choose to play rough when the two meet on June 2, it could well regret it. The stretcher bearers should be at the ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup Preview: We are the World | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...door reduced to a tiny entryway during the time of the Turkish Empire to prevent looters from driving carts inside the church to carry off their booty. Some of the men waved and cheered a victory; others knelt to pray. A man with bullet wounds came out on a stretcher. All passed through metal detectors. U.S. embassy officials later found more than 90 rifles and other guns left behind, and Israeli troops said they found 40 explosive devices. From the rooftops around the adjoining Manger Square, relatives called out "God is most great!" and shouted to sons and brothers they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of the Siege | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...border when one of Edhi's ambulances screeches by, coming from inside Afghanistan. On a narrow stretcher in the back of the ambulance lies an Afghan, Hekmatullah, 22, gasping with pain at every bump. He had the awful luck to be living not more than 200 yards from a Taliban ammunition dump near Kandahar. Hekmatullah was sleeping in his courtyard the night when American bombs struck. The ammo depot erupted like a volcano, spewing bullets and rockets everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ordinary Afghans Hurt by the War | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...check on Phil and get this thing in motion, so I start pounding on the side of the fire truck saying 'I need an ambulance, I need an ambulance.' They said they don't have anything that we don't have here. I said 'you don't have a stretcher and this man needs to go to the hospital and he has a heart condition' and they're telling me, 'Get out of the way. We're running the show here.' I'm like, 'Oh, guess again. I'm running the show here and this man needs an ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transcript: Sharon Stone vs. the Komodo Dragon | 6/23/2001 | See Source »

...Then a doozy of a finger-wagging, don't-get-up-in-my-business-girlfriend catfight between Alicia and Kimmi, with cute little stretcher-doll Elisabeth staring off into the distance. And we know who's gonna win that one. Alicia may be the bitterest personal trainer this side of Don Rickles (there was an exercise tape that never took off), but she's got a reliable snipe-session girlfriend in Jeff and the tribe can still wash clothes on her stomach. And in Kucha's post-pig-hunt season of plenty, Kimmi's main contribution - not eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kimmi Chopped — and What About That Chopper? | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

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