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...built our evening campfire a little too close to the ocean, and just as we finished the last bites of our s’mores a passing boat sent a large wave that extinguished our fire in a hissing mass of smoke...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, | Title: Survivor: Boston Harbor | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...nothing in my job description ever mentioned anything about early morning downpours, collapsed tents or ocean-drenched campfires...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, | Title: Survivor: Boston Harbor | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...though our morning began at a time when many college students have yet to go to sleep during the school year, we all passed the time together walking around the beach, skipping stones on the ocean surface and finally getting that charcoal to light...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, | Title: Survivor: Boston Harbor | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...ones." Factoring into Jefferson's belief that America should restrain itself from engaging in international conflict was his optimistic image of the country's utter physical vastness and geographic impregnability. Here is how he characterized the nation in his first Inaugural Address: "Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...crowd around him. The dozens of fighters then chant as he walks to the cabin of the tanker truck rigged with explosives. The men give the bomber a final hug and farewell. He turns to the masked figures and waves, as though he's about to board an ocean liner for a holiday. Behind the wheel bomber shows off the wiring to the explosive device and the trigger, a button between the seats. The camera records the truck disappearing into the night and the devastating explosion as it reaches its target,  the American position beneath Khalidya bridge, west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chilling Iraqi Terror Tape | 7/4/2004 | See Source »

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