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...seconds I said, "God, please save me." I had no idea that you could jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and live. That was foreign to me. You see these websites, they say, "If you want to kill yourself, go to the Golden Gate Bridge." I'm trying to shut them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survivor Talks About His Leap | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...eyes. His staff members kidded him when he showed up the night before Katrina with a "hurricane box" containing a sledgehammer and life jackets. They laugh no more, he says. This year Charity, which can barely sustain an emergency room in a defunct Lord & Taylor store, plans to shut down and evacuate for anything greater than a tropical storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You're On Your Own | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...Amount Jacqueline Williams of Flint, Mich., owed her energy company when her power was shut off for seven hours last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 29, 2006 | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...League of Women Voters has been signing up voters ever since women won the right to vote in 1920. But now, for the first time in the League's storied history, a branch of the organization has shut down its operations to protest a new Florida law that the League claims will have a chilling effect on voter registration - in a state that already has one of the nation's most notoriously dysfunctional election systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Election Lawsuit in Florida | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...because we rarely have a problem with political parties. It didn't matter what side you were on. We were not going to penalize them." But Weiser of the Brennan Center calls that position "discriminatory. The League of Women Voters and AFL-CIO have been forced to shut down their operations. It's not only burdensome but discriminatory. That's problematic - and unconstitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Election Lawsuit in Florida | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

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