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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nation's No. 1 state recipient of homeland-security money per capita, Cheyenne has access to a mobile radio system that allows different agencies to talk to one another, thanks to $52,000 in federal money. Federal money has also brought Wyoming four command vehicles; enough protective haz-mat suits for every police officer, sheriff's deputy and coroner in the state; and a robot named Miss Daisy that can help dismantle bombs and dispose of toxic chemicals. All these items will more than likely save lives. Hazmat suits can be used for highway oil spills and police raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are We?: How We Got Homeland Security Wrong | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...close of his national title-clinching bout, he threw his headgear to the ground and thrust his arms up into the air before running to the side of the mat and jumping into the outstretched arms of his coach, where—for a moment—he looked more like a five-year-old kid than the most successful wrestler in Harvard history...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jantzen Seizes NCAA Championships | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...others, he ignores. There's not an unkind bone in his body, but he's deeply passive and just wants everybody to pretend things are fine, and the fact that he can call himself on it isn't helping him change. "I'm one to leap up from the mat to aid all manner of strangers and tourists and other wide-eyed foreigners," he admits, "but when it comes to loved ones and family I can hardly ungear myself from the La-Z-Boy, and want only succor and happy sufferance in return." The only place he feels truly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival in the Suburbs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...miles south—to St. Louis’s Savvis Center—for the 2004 NCAA Wrestling Championships on March 18-20. While there, take a gander at one of Harvard’s greatest and most popular entertainers. When he’s on the mat, he?...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMA SLAMMA: Take This, Ringling Brothers | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...That’s just a shame that he had to end his career that way,” Weiss said. “He didn’t really get a chance to finish it on the mat...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Wrestlers To Head to NCAAs | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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