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At Douvres-la-Delivrande we checked out a school and ensured it was free of booby traps so it could be used as a brigade HQ. My next job was to go to the radar station--a concrete blockhouse, a huge hexagon with apertures all round. The Germans were inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

But the flap was instructive about the kind of traps that the Bush campaign is adept at setting for Kerry, and the personality trait that makes Kerry walk right into them. That Bush allies would unearth and quietly slip the 1971 videotape to two news outlets tells you that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kerry Means To Say... | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Experts say Allen isn't the only one to fall into these nettlesome traps. "The main problems are people's lack of familiarity with regulations and the belief they can cook food to be manufactured in the same way they cook it for immediate consumption," says Olga I. Padilla-Zakour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foodies Gone Wild | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Once driven nearly to extinction by rampant fur trapping and forest clearing, beavers are colonizing large swaths of North America where people don't remember seeing them. Since Massachusetts banned lethal leg-hold traps in 1996, the state's beaver population has tripled, to 70,000. North Carolina may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: I'll Be Dammed! | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

In many SNAFU cartoons, vigilance - a kind of protective paranoia - is the motto. "Spies" (directed by Jones for an August 1943 release) darkly suggests that German and Japanese agents lurk everywhere: in a baby carriage, a mailbox, a street lamp, a drain, a horse's head, inside a telephone. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

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