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...exported e-waste ends up in Guiyu, China, a recycling hub where peasants heat circuit boards over coal fires to recover lead, while others use acid to burn off bits of gold. According to reports from nearby Shantou University, Guiyu has the highest level of cancer-causing dioxins in the world and elevated rates of miscarriages. "You see women sitting by the fireplace burning laptop adapters, with rivers of ash pouring out of houses," says Jim Puckett, founder of Basel Action Network (BAN), an e-waste watchdog. "We're dumping on the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Waste Not | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...vegetarian drags the carcass under a tree. Granny D. waxes philosophical, saying, 'If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of life, for living your life leads to death. Until you face death and see its beauty, you will be afraid to really live - you will never properly burn the candle for fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Old People Know, Anyway? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...list of items i need: 1) magnifying glass to read the tiny print in TIME's List Issue. 2) Stronger magnifying glass to burn holes in those lists that are still too small to see, even with help from a magnifying glass. 3-10) I'm good. Happy New Year! Jeffrey Kaufman, Belford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...rival, Raila Odinga, in balloting that was seen as rigged by both sides.) Damning evidence has emerged that Kenyan politicians plotted much of the violence that killed 1,200 people last January. This was done by offering cash to poor kids out in the countryside to kill or burn down houses of the politicians' enemies. It had been done before. Kung'u and a small band of colleagues think their leaders will do the same thing next time around. (See pictures of crisis in Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Kenya's Election Violence Recur? | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...crew circled the moon 10 times over the next 20 hours. On their final orbit, once again alone behind the moon, the crew re-lit the engine that was their only ticket home. If it had failed to burn, they would have been stranded forever in lunar orbit. The flight controllers - to say nothing of the families - waited anxiously for the astronauts to emerge from radio blackout. When they did, it was Lovell's voice that broke the silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Apollo 8, Man's First Trip to the Moon | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

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