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...matter how liberal and open the Sherwins were, they did not, under any circumstances, want their son having sex under their roof when they were in the house. "I did not want to encourage it, but I didn't want to bury my head in the sand," says Gary. "I took the viewpoint, if he's gonna do it, he's gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Matters: Not in Our House | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Taliban is his sponsor in sin. Without the Taliban’s tacit support, bin Laden would have been incapacitated long ago. Even the world’s most nefarious networks cannot convert their hatred into mass murder unless a government of sinister scoundrels buries its head in the sand and ignores the training camps and financial operations required to do what al Qaeda has done...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Our Stand | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

...wartime we're flacks. And now that the hard-cores in the sand are obviously training for something very real, "Operation Bright Star" suddenly looks like a pretty big media event. We may be babysitting the press full time, and we may be asked to stick around for a while. We may get shipped somewhere else - Cairo. Uzbekistan. Possibly Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Me In, Secretary Rumsfeld | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

There are plenty of things you can do in a desert that have nothing to do with sand or sun: skiing, water-skiing, canoeing, trekking, scuba diving, golf, safari, horse racing ... Well, not in every desert, perhaps. But you can do all that in Dubai, which, as more than half a million Asians a year are discovering, is the world's new adventure sports Mecca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrenaline Junkies Find a Fix in Dubai | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...gives me a thumbs-up, and backs away. Until today, sitting in the desert heat, feeling the soar and stutter of engine revs rattle through my spine, I wasn't aware of a yearning to bash dunes. But as I stamp the accelerator, slew and slide up a sand hill and fly over the ridge, trailing a cloud of sand to a crunching back-front touchdown, it's all too apparent I missed my calling. I bounce along the ridges at 70 km/h, graffiti-ing the sand left and right with an exuberant four-wheeled scrawl. Leaning in and cresting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrenaline Junkies Find a Fix in Dubai | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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