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Dates: during 2000-2009
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John Voelz isn't trying to brag, but it's fair to say he was down with Twitter before most people knew it was a proper noun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twittering in Church, with the Pastor's O.K. | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...without a clear enemy. Anything waged against a shapeless, intangible noun can never truly be won - President Clinton's drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey said as much in 1996. And yet, within the past 40 years, the U.S. government has spent over $2.5 trillion dollars fighting the War on Drugs. Despite the ad campaigns, increased incarceration rates and a crackdown on smuggling, the number of illicit drug users in America has risen over the years and now sits at 19.9 million Americans. And a large portion of their supply makes its way into the country through Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drugs | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...most interested in was the cycle - the similarities between what we're going through right now and what people went through after the last war we were in. So I'm more interested in common cycles than writing about something specific. I don't really write about proper noun-type events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musician M. Ward | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...Espionage dramas need their mysteries, and the first one here is: the international what? Has that adjective become a noun, like the continental or the cosmopolitan? Is the international a man or an anthem, a cartel or a cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Noun] in a Post-Racial Society: Obama and the [Synonym...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Paper Topics, Fresh To Order | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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