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There are also real concerns among conservationists that some private parks in the U.S. are raising tigers specifically for the global wildlife trade. Along with bones, tiger skins are coveted as ceremonial garb in some cultures, or as decoration. (Although the international trade in tigers and tiger parts is illegal, few countries have taken steps to actually enforce the ban.) "Unless we can crack down on the illegal trade and on poachers in the wild, tigers have very little chance of survival," says Keshav Varma, the program director of the World Bank's global tiger initiative. (See a cheapskate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Valentine? Celebrate the Year of Tiger Instead | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...Along with New Year's Eve and Mother's Day, Valentine's Day is one of 
the most profitable days of the year for dining establishments; seven
 other calendar days, including Super Bowl Sunday, have already been 
granted blue-law exemptions in some states. "We felt like Valentine's Day had
 just been overlooked," says Missouri State Representative Bill Deeken. 
In January, Deeken proposed "Love Legislation" that would allow
 restaurants and bars that lacked annual Sunday liquor licenses to be
 open and sell alcohol on Valentine's Day. Rob Agee, a Lohman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liquor Laws Make Valentine's Day Blue | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...histrionic personality disorder would be eliminated, and personality disorders would be reduced to five key types: antisocial, avoidant, borderline, obsessive-compulsive, and schizotypal (a word for so eccentric that you don't get along with others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The DSM: How Psychiatrists Redefine 'Disordered' | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...guys are flaky tonight,” said Indy Co-President Patricia E. Florescu ’11. Florescu, along with other event organizers, started desperately calling guy friends to come make up for the imbalance...

Author: By Agnes K. Sibilski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Race to Find a Valentine | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

Shortly before dawn on Saturday, under a starry, icy desert sky in southern Afghanistan, American-led coalition forces launched the long foretold attack against the Taliban stronghold of Marja, along the Helmand River. In the biggest land and air offensive in the nine-year long war against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces, more than 15,000 coalition forces, backed by wave after wave of 90 helicopters and aircraft, sealed off Marja and seized key positions inside the town and on its periphery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. and Coalition Forces Strike a Taliban Bastion | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

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