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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...favor of continuing inspections and containing Saddam, but the day [the war] started I did that flip that most Americans did and said, ‘I just hope they know what they’re doing,’” Franken said. “But we’re bombing holy sites we didn’t even know existed. I thought we were supposed to know this place...

Author: By Amelia A. Showalter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalist Defends Bush’s War Plans | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various Sri Lankan beaches?recalls the swirling intensity of a Van Gogh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Garbage | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...much as we want to be.” The problem may be that people hear the word “television” in HRTV and believe, perhaps not unjustifiably, that they will be able to broadcast, he says. “They came here expecting to flip a switch and get live and broadcasting,” says Tempest...

Author: By Patricia K. Foo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HRTV Struggles To Reach Viewers | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

Laakso remembered how, after outgrowing the program, he and his siblings would flip through the channels and watch together for old times’ sake...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Mourn Death of Mr. Rogers | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

Traffic-safety features such as guardrails and curbs, meant to keep cars on the road, tend to "trip" a tall SUV, causing it to flip over. Even changes in a paved surface, as when one wheel strays onto a gravel shoulder, can cause some SUVs to lose their balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Track Record | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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