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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...airport manager came striding out and invited us over to his house for a cup of tea. He lived in a bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...airport manager came striding out and invited us over to his house for a cup of tea. He lived in a bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

...poised themselves long before dawn in the House’s stone breezeway. It was so early it was late, as the group exchanged knowing nods for the silent, evasive greetings of young Eliot men on their long and chilly walk home. To wear two pairs of socks, to smear Vaseline on feet to cut down on friction—these had been part of the warning as well...

Author: By Brian P. Quinn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Eliot Tradition: The Jimmy Fund's Friends From Across the Charles | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...wealthier nations like the U.S., pap smear tests to detect pre-cancerous lesions are commonly available, and incidences of the disease are very...

Author: By Alexander R. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Study Might Reduce Cancer in Developing World | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...night stands." For once, the Levy team stayed nearly silent and let the allegation backfire, which it did when Talk denied that it had uncovered anything of the kind. And for a day, the airwaves and tabloids were dominated by what the New York Daily News labeled a "Chandra smear campaign." Says a source close to the family: "We just kind of laid back and let that play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Goes On | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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