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Thanks to nearly 40,000 American troops still stationed in Korea, that truce has been maintained--safeguarded along the demilitarized zone bisecting the Korean peninsula at its waist. The DMZ is a strange place today, bristling with gun emplacements and barbed wire, studded with land mines, one of which blew the legs off a South Korean army officer four days after our visit. Yet a deceptive air of tranquillity pervades its locust thickets, and in the near absence of humanity, wildlife flourishes. White cranes re-enact scenes from an ancient Chinese painting as they stalk long-legged in the flooded...
...from her. Dandridge watched as about five or six officers caught up to him. "The police were swarming around him like bees swarm honey," she says. "They began to beat him, punching him and kicking him. He had his hands in the air, and I didn't see any gun. People were screaming at the police, telling them to stop, that they were going to kill...
Several officers had their guns drawn, witnesses said. Suddenly, a gun went off. It is still not clear who fired, only that an officer had been shot in the hand. Jones then lunged behind the wheel of a squad car and fled again. Police showered the car with more than 40 bullets, but Jones managed to drive 1 1/2 miles to the corner of Oxford and 26th streets. There, a hovering helicopter from a local TV station captured the now infamous 28 seconds...
...problem is that Britney Spears is not going to marry that young man from 'N Sync after all. So I have nothing to do but watch the egrets stand guard at the edge of the marshes, and stare dumbly at the strips of current that flow like gun-gray paint from the creek to the bay. Did you ever see such a day? Did you ever taste such tomatoes! Did you ever hear the one about the minister, the priest and the rabbi? (Why is it that ministers, priests and rabbis get together only in jokes?) Did you ever...
...jobs. But they are so indebted to special interests--including Big Business and the National Rifle Association--that they tend to stay gridlocked. After the shooting rampages at Columbine and elsewhere last year, a large majority of Americans support new controls on firearms--yet Congress has passed no new gun laws...