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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that bring about such memories. Many are tender scenes of married life, and quite a few are humorous. For example, while waiting to visit Quintana at a hospital in New York, Didion recounts the day when three-year-old Quintana stuck a seed pod from their garden up her nose and her doctor had to be called away from a dinner party to remove it. Quintana apparently enjoyed such an adventure, and stuck another seed pod up her nose the next day in order to repeat it. Such moments provide a fuller range of emotional experiences than might be expected...

Author: By Marin J.D. Orlosky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Didion’s Moving Memoir Lets Reader See ‘Year’ Through Her Eyes | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

Alarm was needed. Victims could die in 24 hours. Symptoms included bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears and eyes. Some people turned so dark blue from lack of oxygen that an Army physician noted that "it is hard to distinguish the coloured men from the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the 1918 Flu | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...Michael Ray Aquino. According to arrest papers, a subsequent FBI audit of Aragoncillo's computer use found that he had searched for documents out of his area of responsibility. But a full investigation was not initiated until July. Perhaps most troubling, during the intervening four months--and under the nose of an active FBI audit--Aragoncillo allegedly sent Aquino at least four e-mails with secret documents from the same databases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Among U.S.? | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...Inhale deeply and quietly through the nose to a count of four (with your mouth closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aging Naturally | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...wayward teens in Ensenada, Mexico. Olsen says the facility, Casa by the Sea, required residents to wear shoes without backs so they couldn't run. He says that as punishment for a three-meal hunger strike, he was forced to sit in a stress position--cross-legged, with his nose touching a wall--for two hours. Olsen's small face, which is framed by a pop-star haircut that makes him look as though he's still 15, scrunches with tears when he gets to the next part: "I could only come home when I wrote my parents and promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Gay Teens | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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