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...county became convinced on Wednesday that they had accidentally voted for Buchanan, whose total of 3,407 votes in the county was three times as high as in neighboring counties with different-style ballots. Buchanan himself, never one to miss a chance to stir hot soup if it could spill on someone named Bush, went on the air and said he did not think all those votes had been intended for him. With Bush emerging from the initial count with a 1,784-vote lead, this could mean the margin of victory for Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reversal of Fortune | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

...deep proof of our need to spill, and keep on spilling, lies in reflex, often in desperate circumstances. A number of years ago, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could move was his left eyelid. Flicking that eyelid, he managed to signal the letters of the alphabet, and proceeded to write his autobiography, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with the last grand gesture of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Am Writing Blindly" | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

MYTH 4 Don't spill your guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...Myth 4 Don't spill your guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In or Out: Inside College Admissions | 10/15/2000 | See Source »

...midday, I know the proper way to clean up a blood spill. (With bleach.) I know the remedies for both conscious and unconscious choking, and how to self-administer the Heimlich maneuver (by leaning over the back of a chair). I know how to apply CPR. After a morning of vivid reminders of my mortality, the lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Continuing Education: Give Me The Paddles And--Clear! | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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