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...Indy Whopper and a Snickers Adventure bar with coconut and chai. "Wouldn't Indy, now a senior citizen, have more than just a little bump in his cholesterol if he had scarfed down his namesake burger?" the doctor asks. "How could he be fit enough to chase down ancient relics while dodging boulders and outwitting Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is George Lucas Repeating Himself? | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well-Oiled Machine | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...both because the outcome is no longer in doubt and because no one wants to be the last to come on board. Party fund raisers started this process last week; others will follow in the next two weeks. The intramural animus of April and early May could seem like ancient history by late June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Start to the Campaign's Finish | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...love with Barcelona, its gnarled Gaudi buildings, and with the countryside of Ovieto, a hundred shades of glorious earth tones. (The cinematographer is Javier Aguirresarobe, who has shot films directed by Pedro Almodovar, Victor Erice and Alejandro Amendabar.) It is in Ovieto that Vicky meets Juan Antonio's ancient father, who writes beautiful poetry but refuses to publish it, believing that a world that has not learned how to love does not deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes: Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and Woody | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...Number of people who speak Ojibwa, an ancient Native American language used in more than 200 communities across the Great Lakes region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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