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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Not too long ago, we were at a coroners convention and we were speaking with a funeral director, and he said that for 30 years he's been in the funeral business without incident. But a couple months back, he just woke up sweating and screaming, kind of freaked out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

Lil’ Wayne has conquered the rap world but he isn’t a rock star just yet. With lead single “Prom Queen” off his upcoming rock debut “Rebirth,” he crosses over into a land few rappers...

Author: By Mark A. Fusunyan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Lil' Wayne | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

Of course, I mean nerds. Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society’s most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Demise of the Nerds | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

China's sensitivity about Hainan and the surrounding area is well-known. It was in the same area, early in 2001, that a Chinese J-8 fighter plane collided with a U.S. Navy spy plane, killing the fighter pilot and damaging the Navy's EP-3 so severely that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sea Spat Between the U.S. and China | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Given the GOP's precarious position, it's a threat that not even McConnell can afford to take lightly, and the war may be entering a truce. Few figures in the state have publicly taken sides, and Williams has been silent about his intentions. But the prospect of war between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Senate Republicans Want to Bench Jim Bunning | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

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