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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...during the day we're not on anything. It's hard. It's real hard. It's abnormal." She elaborated that "we're not holding up very well. My diet's off. I eat wrong. I'm often sick to my stomach. I'm very sick. It's sheer terror." How she copes: she avoids reading the papers and tries to get out of the house with friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Levy: 'We're Not Holding Up Very Well' | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...approaching my temporary shift from mild-mannered undergrad to bedding-retail superhero. The chain store in question has a Boston-area outlet, which I plan to visit come September. I might even take along my nametag and surreptitiously assist a few customers, if only for the sheer novelty of it all. And if you ask me to pretend to sell you sheets, I’ll certainly oblige. I hear it’s a great way to make new friends...

Author: By Thomas J.clarke, | Title: POSTCARD FROM DEERFIELD, ILL.: Bedding Down for the Summer | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...never stay down for long, so really I?d just be delaying the stimulus until next time my paycheck doesn?t cover my expenses. But without getting into the dirty financial details, putting up $300 against my current credit-card- and other debt balances only depresses me with the sheer spit-in-the-ocean futility of it. With this volume, it's ridiculous to even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Spent My Summer Tax Rebate Check | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...Tzovaras has compiled statements from those involved with the business proclaiming the couple's innocence, which the court refused to let him present. Even the shareholders who opposed Jeppesen believe the Danes did nothing wrong. "They've just wandered into the threshing machine through sheer inattention and ignorance," says Gary Shugg, who helped orchestrate the financing deal with Jeppesen that went sour. The sapphire mine is shut and in the hands of the Lao government, Jeppesen and Bruns remain in hiding and investors hold stock in a company that has no access to its only asset. The Danes' three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dream in Tatters | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers who cut off their toothbrush handles to lighten their loads. You're not even winded. Charlie Cox, a carpet-store owner from Glenwood Springs who heads the local snowmobilers' club, stares at a sheer red cliff glowing in the distance. "This is something we don't tell people in New York about," he says. "Or Denver." Cox, 51, climbs back onto his red Polaris Xplorer 400, knowing that this might be one of his last rides up Red Creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Rules The Trail? | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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