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...seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage?a possible step toward producing nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of Sunshine | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...contestants, weary from the media attention, have retreated to their rooms. It's only an hour before the start of the swimsuit round, and it's raining. "Oh, my poor girls," laments Lobsang Wangyal,producer of the Shambala Miss Tibetbeauty pageant. "They are going to freeze." Wangyal stops to bark a question at one ofhis assistants: "How are we doing on the judges?" Moments later a mobile phone rings. "We got the princess!" shouts hisassistant, who has taken a few days off work at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy to help Wangyal out. He's referring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pretty Independent | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

While they will also conduct field work—such as studying Farrell’s special interest, bark beetles—researchers from Carnegie and the Smithsonian will do the largest part of the data gathering...

Author: By Ben A. Black, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Biology Professor To Sleuth for Species | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...Rockwell Group's 90 employees (Rockwell calls them "collaborators") are charged with finding unusual materials to build with. And in the casino he had the means to use every crayon in the box. He wove strips of birch bark together for some of the walls, encased turkey feathers and dried corn husks in glass for others. The lobby is delineated by trees made of cedar, old copper joints and beads, and is punctuated by a 55-ft. indoor waterfall. Gamblers try their luck in the glow of Wombi Rock, a mountain made of onyx and alabaster fused onto glass, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Spaces | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

While Harvard and its law school have often behaved as watchdogs for equal rights, in this case, their bark was bigger than their bite...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fight the Air Force | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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