Word: sharked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...minute, two years ago, we all felt silly for having cared so much about Monica and Gennifer, for obsessing over Britney, for indulging a spate of shark attack stories in what turned out to be a year in which there were fewer than usual. Newspapers proclaimed “The Death of Irony,” and a nation resolved to rethink its priorities in the face of tragedy. The Onion, perhaps sensing what was to come, published the headline, “A Shattered Nation Longs to Care about Stupid Bullshit Again.” Now, sure enough...
...prosecution of pre-emptive war in Iraq, the detention of suspects without trial or counsel, the suspension or revisions of numerous civil liberties—all were conceivable only after the attack, and all are deserving of media scrutiny. Yet the media fairly quickly turned its attention elsewhere (new shark attacks). Now, not only has the public forgotten about the survival of al Qaeda, the failure to locate Saddam, the entire anthrax episode, Harken, Enron, the Wilson leak, and so on and so on, but on top of the forgotten stories, there are whole new ones that are barely told...
...market for a kite, this is the place to shop. We spotted this flying shark under Traditional Kites in Kites for Kids--just scroll past the 12-ft. Jellyfish and 25-ft. Panel Dragon. There's also a full line of flags, banners and wind socks...
INJURED. BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, among the nation's best competitive amateur surfers, after a 10-to-15-ft. shark bit off her left arm while she was lying on her surfboard; off Kauai's North Shore, Hawaii. Hamilton had obtained several sponsors and was planning...
...such as concerts, art exhibitions, farmers' markets and picnics. The season draws to a close in March, with Hooked on Seafood, held in Nelson on March 13, and the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival - celebrating Maori cuisine - scheduled for the same day. On the Wildfoods menu are seagull egg, cricket, mako shark, muttonbird and manuka pork. Not a chunk of flavorless cheddar in sight...