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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wuss. And yet I've never told people to pipe down when they were disturbing my peace with their too-loud blatherings on a cell phone. I let them disrupt my naps on the morning train. I even turn the other cheek in restaurants or at the movie theater. Instead, I quietly simmer, indulging violent fantasies that involve the loud-mouthed caller's being stranded in a swamp with nothing but his cell phone and a starving, 1,200-lb. alligator named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Zapper | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...CHEEK TRICK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60-Second Symposium | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...special edition of 200 T-Birds for sale in its 2000 Christmas catalog. When the phone lines opened in September, all 200 cars, priced at $41,999 each, were sold in 2 hrs. 15 min. That's more like a love bite than a mere peck on the cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Retro Vroom | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Quoth the Times: "By the time he arrived this evening in Flint, Mich., Mr. Gore was punchy from exhaustion, his face puffy and pink, with rivulets of sweat meandering down his cheek. He sucked on lozenges as he spoke, but they did little to soothe his hoarseness." Gore also thanked "Rogers Hornsby" and his band for warming up the crowd before a Dearborn rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tuesday Line | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Foreign Minister Ben-Ami declines to say if separation will mean pulling out of some Jewish settlements. In Jerusalem, he admits, "it's not easy at all" to separate the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods that are cheek by jowl throughout the eastern part of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Last-Ditch Peace Plan | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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