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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...running back named Dodge Connolly, who may have lost a few steps on the field but is yards ahead of most people in sensing pro football's glittering future. That potential is personified by Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) who has it all: he's a war hero, a snake-hipped runner and cute as all get out. He is a version of Red Grange, who came out of Illinois, signed a huge contract with the Chicago Bears and began the economic and social transformation of the game; the road to the Super Bowl started, however primitively, with Grange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leatherheads: For the Love of Football | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Material World Basic leather, begone! Textured crocodile, snake and alligator are the news in luxury accessories. This page: Cole Haan Darianna sandal in whipsnake, $495 colehaan.com) Tod's Akan bag in alligator, $29,000 tods.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Wild | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...appears all around campus—on the side of Lowell Lecture Hall or the base of the Anderson footbridge. Yet the seal may soon find itself sharing company with the Betsy Ross flag and the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake in the dustbin of iconographic history. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is currently considering House Bill 3412, a measure which would establish a special commission to determine whether the 230-year-old shield “accurately reflects and embodies the historic and contemporary commitments of the Commonwealth to peace, justice...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: The Semiotics of the Seal | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...heavy hammer into a sharp edge. The nail is then coiled to fit onto a bamboo stick. A groove is cut into the bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow is dipped into frog or snake poison before being released. The bow is made by forcefully bending hard wood and adding string and springs. The result is a four-foot bow that can shoot an arrow for over 1,500 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace and Poison Arrows in Kenya | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...winter consists of rolling the dice and hitting the snake-eyes three times—four or five cyclones which produce bad snowstorms like we’ve had this year,” said Farrell, who was named a 2008 fellow by the American Meteorological Society. “A good winter, you might only hit that kind of cyclone once...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Snow Not Attributed to Global Warming | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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