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What's weird about the following scene: Beijing gangsters shove hostages into a car and flee. When the pursuing police fire at their gas tank, blowing it up, the hooligans hustle the captives from the smoldering wreck into a nearby building. A dozen cops in black ski masks race across open ground firing semi-automatic weapons at them, scale the building with ropes, then swing from the rooftop through the windows. After a second gun battle, they subdue the outlaws. It's unclear what has become of the hostages. Later, when asked if police normally open fire on cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on the Prize | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...what's the big deal? The problem is that putting computers behind a firewall is like taking your 6-year-old son to a petting zoo and telling him he can look at, but not touch, the turtles in the tank...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Tear Down This Wall | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

...British Petroleum who now lobbies for opening ANWR in Washington. "We'll use a range of arguments. National security, dependence on unreliable sources in the Middle East, cost of energy. The best way of winning is to make people concerned about the cost of filling up their gas tank. It will all be over by September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...right-wing think tank sharply rebuffed a year-old MIT internal study--which claimed the university discriminates against its female faculty-- contending that the initial study was based largely on rhetoric and not evidence...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Study on Faculty Gender Bias Criticized | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...only girl who, when faced with the epic decision of what to wear to school during the spring of 1974, decided to go with the tube top? As I waited for the bus with my brother (Frank Zappa hair) and two older sisters (tank tops, hip huggers and short shorts), I don't remember worrying about what signals we were sending to society or if we would get into college or ever be taken seriously. All I knew is that we looked sooooo good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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