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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government will drown...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Presidential Poetry | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...wife Annette poked him and told him to roll over. This has happened regularly over 24 years of marriage. But on this particular night, Randy said, "I can't." Annette asked why not. "I can't," he repeated. "If I roll over, I'm going to drown." Months later, thinking back on the incident, Annette smiles ruefully. "I let it go," she says. "I figured in his mind he was back underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine Came Up. One Went Back | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...drown in self-pity when those familiar notes caught...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, | Title: Tapping the Heartstrings | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...formal ruse of argument. Our very ideas are bellicose, formed to know their enemies and seek to destroy them. Our delight is in the death-march of the argument over the novel notion, the heady idea: the sound of data crunching and uncertainty crushed beneath jackbooted convention. We drown the daisies in concrete and leave ourselves a toilsome ascent strewn with the rubble of our finest thoughts. And for what? At least Sisyphus realized when he was back at the bottom. We labor under the illusion that the ascent is never-ending...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Old Rabbits Die Hard | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...flash flood, according to a report delivered last week in Atlanta at a meeting sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In low-lying flood zones, says Thomas Songer of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, men are more likely to drive around barricades and drown in high water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why Men Die Young | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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