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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feel "we're jumping into something extremely dangerous without world support, and it has a real feeling of Vietnam." But in the TIME/CNN poll, 17% said Powell had changed their mind. Before his speech, they opposed sending troops to Iraq; now they favored it. "It scared me," said Abby Headrick, 20, a University of Georgia junior, of the speech. "I had no idea Saddam had so much access to materials to make nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Diplomacy and Deployment: Countdown To War | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. ED HEADRICK, 78, inventor who perfected the Frisbee; in San Francisco. Though other scientists developed the first, wobbly Frisbees, Headrick gave the top of the disk aerodynamic ridges, patenting the smooth-flying projectile still popular today. Later he founded the International Frisbee Association. His family said they will honor his request that his ashes be molded into memorial disks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 26, 2002 | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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