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In those years, environmental and social change have hit Greenland hard and fast. In Nuuk, drying musk ox hides hang over the balconies of the monolithic blocks of public housing that absorb exiles from the quickly emptying outlying villages stationed around the island's rocky fringe. The island's transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenland to World: "Keep Out!" | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

While Schuster continued to defend his resolution, veteran committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who drew chuckles from the audience for a forceful delivery that often bordered on shouting, criticized Schuster and Nolan’s proposal “nebulous” and lacking in specifics.

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debate Focuses On City Schools | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

BABY BOOMERS KNOW HER AS the icy matriarch on TV's hit prime-time soap Falcon Crest, as Ronald Reagan's first wife and as mother of Maureen and Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Remember when everyone bought coffee in a can? We don't either, which is a tribute to the influence of coffee guru Alfred Peet. Opening his Berkeley, Calif., coffeehouse in 1966 and insisting on dark-roasting a variety of strong beans, the Dutch-born son of a coffee merchant single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 17, 2007 | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

He's willing to acknowledge one or two similarities with another Scandinavian prize giver. Kavli even worked briefly as an explosives engineer, Alfred Nobel's area of tycoonery. But Kavli insists his prizes are different. For one thing, he doesn't want them to be end-of-career accolades, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Nobel? | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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