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...Peter Griffin: Yeah, it’s Boston. See look, there’s Harvard...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Family Guy’ Creator Strikes Again | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...Peter Griffin: Ooh. Someone went to Yale...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Family Guy’ Creator Strikes Again | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...American Dad” is also a sitcom-esque animated comedy with enough obscure pop-culture references and cringe-inducing ethnic jokes to give “Family Guy” a run for its money. MacFarlane provides the voices for both Peter Griffin, the loveable, overweight father-figure in the older series, and Stan Smith, the paranoid, flag-wavingly patriotic father (and, again, the inspiration for the show’s name) in “American Dad,” as well as a number of major supporting characters in both shows...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Family Guy’ Creator Strikes Again | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...behind an 8'/2-ton blast door, is the room where a two-man crew, sitting at two separate "status consoles," receives messages and stares at boards of lights. On June 6 this year, the command crew was 1st Lieut. Donald R. ("Skip") MacKinnon, 32, and 1st Lieut. Stephen J. Griffin, 24. June 6 was an atypically busy day for them because the launching codes were being changed, as they are periodically. A Diet Pepsi can rested on one of the consoles. Five miles away from Tango Zero, a Minuteman III "floats" in a vertical underground cylinder, pointed upward, held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...President were to begin launch procedures, he would signal the Strategic Air Command headquarters near Omaha, which would send messages with an "enabling code" to places like Tango Zero. The enabling code allows the missiles to be unlocked. MacKinnon and Griffin then open a red metal box containing a book that verifies the code received, along with two small keys. The six-figure code is dialed into a machine, and the missile's "safety" removed. Standing 12 ft. apart, the two crewmen then turn their keys within no more than 1.5 sec. of each other (it is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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