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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...friends and neighbors in the heavily guarded housing complex where he lives in Riyadh either have left or are thinking of leaving. His boss, a Saudi American, packed up a few months ago after his family was injured in an attack. Other colleagues have taken extended sabbaticals. The cocktail parties that Cox, 73, used to frequent rarely happen anymore. Those Westerners, who, like Cox, choose to stay in Saudi Arabia despite the escalating threats have no illusions about the dangers they now face. "I intend to stay here," Cox insists. "But I'm looking for signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life as a Target in a Besieged Kingdom | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...came out in 1997--within a month of each other, as it happened--we rediscovered the joy of reading about very bad things happening to real people, preferably in exotic locales. Maybe it's because we never feel quite so warm and comfy in our poolside deck chairs, fruity cocktail in hand, as when we're reading a true-life yarn about somebody else drowning or freezing to death or doing both simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Jersey's Lost U-Boat | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...G.O.P. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois says he will try to attach an amendment to a funding bill that would retroactively prohibit Bell or any other departing House member from filing an ethics complaint. Says LaHood: "I don't think we should be allowing members to throw a Molotov cocktail as they walk out the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parting Shot At Delay | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...combination of two of those agents, Tarceva and Avastin, last August. "The difference is like night and day," says Jacobs. "I take a pill every day, and every three weeks I go in for an infusion, which takes about 30 minutes." After nearly a year on the experimental cocktail, she has seen her primary lung cancer shrink more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Surviving Cancer | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Some go to resorts for poolside rest and cocktail-fueled recreation; others go for health treatments and stress-busting massages. Now, Chiva-Som, the renowned destination spa in Hua Hin, Thailand, is offering one-off "pre-conception retreats," starting over the period Aug. 24-28, to couples who want to begin a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

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