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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Five years ago, at a San Francisco elementary school, a nurse stood by to ensure that the children scrubbed their hands as they arrived, while their packed lunches were confiscated and searched for nut products. The measures were a precaution to protect a 5-year-old boy at the school who had a severe nut allergy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Americans Gone Nuts Over Nut Allergies? | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

Bush: "You're a liberal sissy."Kerry: "You're a right wing nut job."Bush: "You're a pinko commie."Kerry: "You're dumb as a doorknob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JibJab's 2008 In Review | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...confessed drug cartel hood whose alias is "The Nut Job," Marco Vinicio Cobo is remarkably calm and plain-looking. Sitting in the blue-walled interrogation room of a Mexican army base, the chubby, goatee-bearded 30-year-old coolly describes his work for the Zetas, a feared paramilitary force responsible for thousands of brutal murders. And even when he details how his bosses kidnapped and chopped the head off a soldier, he appears relaxed and unemotional, as if he were discussing the weather. But despite the unsettling indifference of its tone, Cobo's confession - of which a video has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Mexican Narco Foot-Soldier | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...admitted car nut, he proudly shows off the vintage cars he keeps in a special area inside the dealership. There, 15 mint-condition cars gleam amid old Skelly gas signs and an antique manual pump frozen at 19 cents a gallon. A juke box features Sinatra, the Ink Spots and Peggy Lee. The colors are spectacular. There's the two-toned gray and salmon '55 Bel Air and the silky green '57 Thunderbird convertible. How could a country look at cars like that and not fall in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Dodges in a Downturn: Upbeat in Kansas | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...It’s not because I’m a health nut or because I’m better than those lazy idiots on the escalator...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DR. EMMETT BROWN: Spotlight on Those Forgotten Crimson | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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