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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teams on the screen until you notice that the players wearing the royal blue jerseys are somehow different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler. The team captain is a silky assassin who snakes passes with the style and misdirection of 007. His wingman is a shaved-headed, ball-dribbling maestro. Up front: two bleach blond surfer dudes, one of them with the most pinchable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Sons | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Unmanned Gnat and Predator drones equipped with a variety of sensors hover over enemy territory collecting real-time photo and video intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Wave | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...fact, maybe you can't make "Survivor" with an American cast anymore. The well's been poisoned; we all know too much. "This second group would squash Richard Hatch like a gnat; that's how much more prepared they are," says host Jeff Probst. "And they think they might have a movie career when it's over, so they are all playing to the camera." Somehow, this seems to take some of the magic out of it. And while I know part of the point of this is to be able to show lotsa hot chicks in bikinis, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 'Survivor' Virgin | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

During winter break, finals are just a mental gnat that must be swatted away from time to time as friends ask "how was your semester" and we are forced to reply "I don't know--yet." Mercifully, the change of venue keeps the horror ahead out of consciousness, for the most part...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Rack of Reading Period | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...predecessor. "There is a sexuality to this show that S1 didn't have," says Probst. "People chop down trees in bikinis." And, he says, having watched S1, they all come to the outback with a strategy in mind: "This second group would squash [S1 winner] Richard Hatch like a gnat; that's how much more prepared they are. And they think they might have a movie career when it's over, so they are all playing to the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Survivor 2 Back to Reality | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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