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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...began shooting, while the wounded Surette went on firing out of the side window. "You could see small dots leaving your rifle and rounds pinging off the back of the (attackers') vehicle, and everyone is yelling, 'It's armored, it's armored,'" says Mark, who was shooting across the trunk of the BMW. Surette continued firing until he passed out from loss of blood, while Yeager, unable to see the attackers, blasted away pointlessly at a barricade before running to take cover in a ditch on the opposite side of the road. In the rear car, Ahmelman was slumped against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Slip Can Cost Your Life | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...appears on your right as you go around the temple, and you wonder at once if that is the tree: an ancient-looking, sprawling tree with a massive trunk and a zone of deep, hypnotizing shade at its center. A middle-aged Japanese man dressed in white, wearing a mask, is meditating in its shadow. Behind him two Tibetan monks are counting off their prayer beads and whispering. But as you walk to the back of the temple, you see another tree, even larger, with green metal beams holding up its branches. There is a stone fence around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: The Buddhist Trail | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...ultimately a tribute to the barbershop as a nexus of African-American life where professionals and hustlers, up-and-comers and down-and-outers, cross paths. "It's an urban comedy," says Ridley. "But it's also an urbane comedy. We do jokes about selling CDs out of the trunk of your car, but we've also got jokes about Tucker Carlson." Even more so, this appealingly motormouthed show is a celebration of language--boasting, blathering, put-down and pontification--and the new cast has an easy rapport and naturalness. It doesn't always work: a subplot in which Calvin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Movie Hit, Restyled | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...HUPD officers were dispatched to the New Research Building to close an open motor-vehicle trunk...

Author: By Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black smoke, the monsters of steel advance. Bleeding at the trunk, mortally wounded, the century-old tree collapses with a crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gabon: Smashing Through the Jungle | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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