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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tried not to dissect it. Before the show was put together, everybody asked me what I was going to do differently to make it last. I really didn't have anything planned. I wanted to do something that's fun and that's my sensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ellen DeGeneres | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...Outside the museum where I work, I saw a duck rape the corpse of another male duck. After an hour, I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to dissect it and figure out what was going on,” Moeliker explained...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Ig Nobels, Scientists Win For Humor | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

Democrats will also dissect Leavitt's own environmental record during his 10 years as Governor. Data in an unreleased EPA report show that under Leavitt, Utah had a high proportion of polluters emitting at unacceptable levels. Between 1999 and 2001, 30% of Utah facilities with federal licenses to release a specified amount of waste into waterways exceeded those limits. The national average was about 25% in 2001. Others fared even worse in the February report, but it's a problem for Leavitt, his critics say, since he hopes to move power away from the EPA and toward states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions for Leavitt | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...about fashion; it is about accepting your limits and your mortality. Almost every episode identifies the point when the subject got too old, busy and tired to update her look. "People hold on to the era when they felt most beautiful," says Woodall as the two dissect a fortyish woman whose wardrobe is frozen at the time of Charles and Diana's wedding. (Of course, if this were the '80s, they'd be preaching the figure-enhancing wonders of the shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Faces | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...Instead, Ulil uses the radio to dissect issues facing modern Islam today. Unlike in the U.S., where an increase in conservative-Christian broadcasting has sharpened an us-vs.-them divide, Ulil preaches inclusiveness in his weekly 30-minute show "Religion and Tolerance." More than 5 million Indonesians listen in as Ulil preaches a moderate and progressive message of Islam. But not everyone appreciates his take: earlier this year, a west Javanese radical group issued a death fatwa against him. But Ulil remains undaunted. Just last week, he was back in fine form, discussing how each individual experiences Islam differently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Waves | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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