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...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...

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

...sand dune near the Dalbandin runway, lost its balance and flopped over, killing two crew members and injuring three others, according to a Pakistani witness. American servicemen who returned safely to Dalbandin were so jittery that they refused to brief Pakistani military officers unless the officers removed their gun holsters before approaching the helicopters. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, bands of U.S. troops continued their covert search-and-destroy missions. The ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fray | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...wanted me to tell her what I thought the song was about; I was 11 and couldn’t say the word “rape.” The album was Amos’s Little Earthquakes, and the song was “Me and a Gun,” an a capella recollection of Amos’ rape at gunpoint. When I was in seventh grade, my sister and I counted the days until our first Tori Amos concert—which we attended with our mother, no less—and were introduced...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

Yankee fans are not without their faults, but at least they get it when it comes to Clemens. They don’t embrace him and never have. He’s a hired gun to them. Perhaps they’ve also noted that he’s big and dumb and throws bats at people. Really, what’s to like...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: Clemens is no Mr. October | 10/24/2001 | See Source »

...Machine gun fires 4,000 rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Wave | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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