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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spend liberal, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political analyst and senior scholar at USC, who was at the back of the room listening to his remarks. Additionally, she said, "Angelides now seems to have a message and a focus that could force the Governor to narrow his message in a way that disturbs his carefully constructed coalition [of disparate independents and mainstream GOP voters]. If that happens, this could be a real race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat Schwarzenegger | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

...trick is to find that narrow space between vigilance and paranoia. After the Bojinka plot was uncovered in 1995, aviation officials banned carry-on aerosols and most liquids and gels heavier than an ounce on U.S. planes leaving Manila. Eventually, the ban faded away. And people kept flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Risk Will We Take? | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...Even given its narrow frame of interest, World Trade Center skews the story for easy uplift. For example, there was another Port Authority officer, Dominick Pezzulo (played by Jay Hernandez), who was trapped with McLoughlin and Jimeno. He managed to free himself from the rubble, working heroically to pry Jimeno loose before he was crushed and killed. Did Pezzulo have a photogenic wife and kids? Might the detailing of their immediate anxiety and lasting grief not have been as illuminating as showing the ultimate triumph of John and Will's families? Why must this movie about 9/11 be only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the War Movies? | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...James Alexander ’10 wrote in an e-mail. Alexander added that first years also conducted searches on Facebook.com once they knew their telephone numbers in hopes of finding a rising sophomore who still had their freshman phone number posted. Others, he said, were able to narrow down their options when they looked at their Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s Registrar Student Record online and found out what freshman Yard—Crimson, Ivy, or Elm—they would inhabit this fall. Last summer, over 100 first years also found out their room assignments...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Termbills Reveal Rooming Clues | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...Further north, the magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny Architects | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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