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What the demonstrators, who have the historical memory of a gnat, don't understand is that, on the contrary, oil is why America kept its distance from the region for so long. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt made alliance with Saudi Arabia, the U.S. chose to leave the Arab world to its own political and social devices so long as it remained a reasonably friendly petrol station. The arrangement lasted a very long time. Had Sept. 11 never happened, it would have lasted longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Coming Ashore | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...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 »

...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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