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Alerted by the reconnaissance as to where the next U.S. thrust would come, they came out in force to stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing An Najaf (Part 2) | 4/1/2003 | See Source »

Over the next few hours, the battalion fired over 45 missiles into the apartment complex, almost all of them going directly through a window. By 9:00pm, it was a brave Iraqi who was willing to draw the attention of the deadly accurate TOWs, and enemy fire had almost completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing An Najaf (Part 2) | 4/1/2003 | See Source »

But today there is congestion on this part of the river. The locks are too small to handle its 1,200-ft., 15-barge tows, and so they must be broken in half to go through the lock and then reassembled on the other side. "You want to keep moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winfield, Mo.: Who Owns The River? | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

In bygone days the job would have been not just daunting but preposterous. River towns still treasure tales of binging, brawling and murder among flatboatmen whose godlessness was a point of pride. The stereotype is outdated: massive consolidation hit the freight-barge business in the 1980s, and large firms like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Away, Roll Away | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

So many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: BRAVE TALES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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