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Standing in the hangar under bright spotlights, the YF-22 Lightning looks just like what it is: a low-slung, sharply angled killing machine. In the air, the advanced jet fighter is not only fast (sprinting up to twice the speed of sound) and agile (pitching and rolling like a Piper Cub) but almost invisible to enemy radar. If the Air Force has its way, the plane will rule the skies for the better part of the 21st century...
...planes have different strong points. Northrop's YF-23, with its sharp, surprising lines, may be stealthier. Its engines are slung under its wings, but their exhaust is sprayed into troughs on the wings' upper surfaces to shield from heat-seeking missiles, a technique borrowed from Northrop's B-2 Stealth bomber. The material surrounding the exhaust outlets in the YF-23 can withstand a temperature of 540 degrees C (1000 degrees F), while the undersurface only a few inches away never gets hotter than 140 degrees C (280 degrees F), making the plane hard to detect by enemy infrared...
...carrying the .25 when the cops arrested him on the street the following day. He wasn't wearing colors; few members do so anymore, since gang emblems are as open an invitation to arrest as carrying a semiautomatic rifle. But just the fact that he was dressed in low-slung black trousers, Nikes and a Pendleton shirt gave him away...
...than 10,000 severely wounded veterans from the four wars Vietnam has fought since 1945. An additional 300,000 disabled soldiers are scattered throughout Vietnam, doing the best they can without the help of the government. In wheelchairs, the ex- soldiers at Ha Bac move quietly among the low-slung buildings, a poignant and disturbing sight...
...have seen them on the margins of history: cameras slung over their shoulders, vests bulging with film canisters, heads bent forward as they focus in and fire away. Since the invention of photography 150 years ago, photojournalists have been pointing their lenses at battles, fires, heroes, villains and the world at large. This Special Collector's Edition of TIME celebrates the most memorable images of that visual heritage...