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...ahead, with her hands in her lap, and a caption that is disturbing in a different vein: "Andrea Yates in custody yesterday after calling officers to her Houston home, where her four sons and one daughter, ages 6 months to 7 years, had all apparently been drowned in a bathtub. The police said Ms. Yates had been fighting depression and had confessed to the killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy, and Other Evils | 6/21/2001 | See Source »

...Residents use control panels around the house to operate everything from the television and lights, to the washing machine and bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Homing' In on a Wireless Future | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Today, Kelly is using the bathtub analogy. "Making electricity causes more air pollution than any other industry in the U.S.," he says. "We tell customers to think of the power grid as a bathtub full of dirty water. Sign up with us, and the energy you use may still all the electricity you draw out of the bottom, we guarantee we'll be put cleaner energy back in at the top. Eventually, the water gets cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a 'Cleaner-Energy' Guy Doesn't Fear a Smokestack-Loving White House | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...that doesn't work, they can always hook up their natural-gas lines to that bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a 'Cleaner-Energy' Guy Doesn't Fear a Smokestack-Loving White House | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...quarter the area of a tennis court. Five meters back from the water is a rock face with a crevice a couple of meters wide extending a few meters from the beach. It is partially open on top, and light streams into it. There used to be a discarded bathtub there among pieces of trash blown in by the wind. During the four months when Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers, with assistance from elements of the Self-Defense Force, combed the area, no one bothered to look beneath the discarded tub. Eventually, at about 9:00 a.m. on Feb. 9, police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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