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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After Christine Ross moved into a brand new home on the southwestern fringe of Albuquerque last fall, she and her three-year-old sharpei-labrador mix, Ruca, went for a walk nearly every evening. Usually, they would venture inside a cinderblock wall where the spiny desert scrub had been smoothed over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized. That's where they were walking a month ago when Ruca spotted what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albuquerque's Mysterious Mass Grave | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...better than expected" and whatever gravity had been holding stocks down disappeared. The news about GE shows how perverse the market has become and also serves as a reminder of how stock investors and economists can be blinded by a drop of water in what is otherwise obviously a desert. There is no circumstance under which a downgrade of GE's debt is good news. It just seems that way when the world is dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Blink of An Eye, the Economy Got Better | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...jewelry is a love affair. I never thought of it as a business. But each time I visited Europe, I thought my work was better than what I found there." Macdonald nods. "All of a sudden, Western girls are attracted to this brand from the middle of the desert," he says. "They're saying, 'My God, I have to have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fertile Waters: Azza Fahmy and Julien Macdonald | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Colonel Darren T. Hansen is a career fighter pilot for the Air Force who flew in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. During the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was in the midst of a staff tour at U.S. Central Command, the agency that oversees operations in the Middle East, and witnessed the development of the American response firsthand...

Author: By H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: National Security Fellas | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...town of Desert Hot Springs doesn't offer much besides bland housing tracts and windmills spinning lazily alongside the highway, but there are plenty of worthy sights nearby, among them the stunning Joshua Tree National Park and Palm Springs' cluster of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. But when a place like Hope Springs really does exist, sometimes it's better to make like a Hollywood luminary on the run. Take a room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escape to Desert Hot Springs | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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