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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...climbed a tree b) escaped from Jimmy, the Bamboo Stealing Keeper c) posed for the saucy new World Wildlife Fund logo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...faced an enemy that, like bamboo, could be bent but not broken. As a result, the war was essentially unwinnable. For Kerrey and his buddies, who grievously suffered, and are still haunted by the ordeal, the epitaph for Vietnam and similar ventures is succinct: "Never Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...faced an enemy that, like bamboo, could be bent but not broken. As a result, the war was essentially unwinnable. For Kerrey and his buddies, who grievously suffered, and are still haunted by the ordeal, the epitaph for Vietnam and similar ventures is succinct: "Never Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well as in Japan (Kurosawa's Scandal). Later she was elected to several terms as a Liberal Democrat to Japan's parliament. Pretty dramatic, eh? No wonder her life story inspired a Tokyo musical. (So did Hayakawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...there's one part of it that no amount of historical revisionism will undo. The Kennedys, especially Jackie, changed the climate of taste in America. From the moment they assumed center stage, they chased away all memory of Mamie Eisenhower's tiered-ruffle dresses and the bamboo furniture in the solarium of Ike's White House. (After Mamie took her on a tour of the place, Jackie complained to a friend that "it looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.") To see Jackie, at 31, take command of the White House was like watching an X-15 blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Lady of Fashion | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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