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...carefully, down to his diet. So he wouldn't be forced to go to the bathroom and lose his right to the floor, he ate only a slice of wheat bread and a handful of unsalted peanuts for breakfast, kept Senate pages from refilling the water glass at his desk and made sure he sipped only half of it during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Herding the Democrats | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...asked Morss Professor of Psychology Susan E. Carey thirty years ago if she could have imagined herself behind this cherry wood desk, she might have been a tad skeptical...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, | Title: Still in the Shadows | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...Rouse's first reaction when the list landed on his desk at police headquarters in Brisbane was to hope it might help solve one of the state's most baffling crimes. Daniel James Morcombe was last seen on his way to catch a bus near his home on the Sunshine Coast on Dec. 7, 2003. The boy had told his family he was going to a shopping center in the coastal town of Maroochydore to buy Christmas presents for them. He never got on the bus. Rouse mapped the homes of suspects living close to where Daniel was last seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In Their Own Web | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

...college cliché that everyone lives in filth. Being clean is not something to be proud about here. My roommates and I sometimes measure our self-worths by comparing consecutive underwear-wearing days. And personally, the fact that I can produce passing-grade schoolwork from a desk where I regularly balance my laptop on a stack of unsorted papers is an immense source of satisfaction...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Really Conspicuous Consumption | 11/16/2004 | See Source »

...Like many in his party, he favors protecting the outdoors; as an attorney, he practiced environmental law, among other things, and wrote the pro-environment Great Outdoors Colorado amendment to the state constitution. But unlike hard-line environmentalists, he is a staunch friend of agriculture. A sign on his desk reads NO FARMS--NO FOOD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: New Faces | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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