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...less publicized crime in New Jersey. Authorities issued a national alert Wednesday morning after they learned that a tractor-trailer carrying what they thought might be hazardous materials had been stolen from Rockland Corp., a distributor of fertilizer and pesticides. Officials were relieved Friday when they found the truck's trailer, which contained 5 tons of lawn fertilizer. Rockland disclosed that the fertilizer in the truck was not the kind rich in ammonium nitrate, which can be used to build bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Truck Bombs The Next Big Threat? | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...suicide truck-bombing in Beirut International Airport killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. Our country has mourned the tragedy...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...buses with men clinging to their sides and roofs. The caravan was stopped at the first police checkpoint. We jumped out and moved through the halted vehicles, attracting a crowd as we walked. A fellow dragged me over to see a white bearded man crumpled into a pick-up truck. He'd been wounded in the air strike on Kandahar. A much larger crowd gathered. Some were curious, a few hostile. Suddenly our guard grabbed us away from the crowd of refugees. "Go back to the car - fast!" he ordered. Later he explained. "They wanted to take you hostages. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pakistan, Everybody Must Get Stoned | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...plain. We are at war now, called to fight unseen enemies on multiple fronts. Report anything unusual or alarming, Bush said, in the hope that 280 million investigators have a better chance of foiling the next plot. But we are not trained for this, and an unmarked catering truck on a quiet street prompts three different neighbors to call the cops. "Be on the lookout for mysterious health symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadow Of Fear | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Blake (Bruce Willis) is the hard guy. He proves this in Bandits' first minutes by stealing a concrete-mixing truck and using it to crash out of the Oregon state pen. Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) thinks he's a smart guy but is actually a hilarious hypochondriac. Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) is a homemaker driven mad by her husband's solipsistic indifference. Very quickly they constitute themselves as "the Sleepover Bandits." Their m.o. is to invade the home of a small-town bank manager at night, take the family hostage and, bickering all the way, waltz into the vault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crime Capers | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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