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Analyzing the fossils at this small site, they counted 52 distinct species just below the iridium layer. Then they counted the species above it. The result: the same 52. It wasn't until they sampled 30 feet higher - and 300,000 years later - that they saw the die-offs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...British media disregards the suffering of Troy’s women to focus on her own “heroic” escape; it is this sort of skewed dehumanization that commits the Trojan victims to doll-hood.Despite its thematic ambiguities, “Trojan Barbie” has a distinct intrinsic rhythm that keeps it moving. Its transitions are marked by a staccato of percussive sounds—lively, yet portentous. A line of lights on a wall in the set also turns rhythmically on and off to further demarcate transitions. As if to the drums of war, the play...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Barbie’ Revives, Revises Tragedy | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...problem is there's no hard and fast rule for what counts as negligence. Going hiking in the early evening and then getting lost in the dark without a flashlight is considered distinct from an accident such as slipping and breaking your leg, says Colonel Martin Garabedian, chief of law enforcement for New Hampshire's Fish & Game Department. He estimates that rescues cost anywhere from $120 to more than $50,000. Annually, he oversees about 150 rescue missions, a figure that has remained steady for years. "What has changed is the cost of doing business - training, equipment, paying officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get into Trouble Outdoors — Who Pays for the Rescue? | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...Because the film’s release coincided with a transition in China’s national consciousness, “Yellow Earth” represents a mood and a filmmaking style that straddles two distinct eras, a socialist world of grand, heroic visions and a new, urbanized Chinese narrative...

Author: By Crystal Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: China's 'Yellow Earth' To Screen at Brattle | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...fate of Obama's first year in office, if not his Administration, will probably be determined by the way he handles four distinct challenges - two in foreign policy and two domestically. The domestic challenges are more important, given the financial crisis. One is whether the financial community will buy his "house built on rock" formulation. "I don't think the banking community understands the scale of the damage that they've done to this society," says a senior Obama financial adviser. And another says, "They're in denial. They don't understand how angry people are about a $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein on the President's Impressive Performance Thus Far | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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