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...happened to walk into the Temple of Earth in Beijing - the nearly 500-year-old monument where Chinese emperors once prayed for good harvests - on Aug. 28, you would have noticed a steady drip. The environmental group Greenpeace placed ice sculptures of 100 children - made of the glacial meltwater that feeds China's great rivers - inside the temple to symbolize the risk that climate change and disappearing ice poses to the 1 billion-plus people in Asia who are threatened by water shortages...
...editor Anna Wintour, do not look all that glamorous. They don't wear much makeup. Their outfits are unremarkable. They work really hard and get pretty scruffy doing it; the magazine's chief creative genius, 68-year-old Grace Coddington, spends most of the movie whipping up images that drip with luxury and beauty while her own hair looks like it was groomed with a rake. (Read TIME's cover story, "The Meaning of Michelle...
Jackson, Michael • doctor who administered fatal injection of propofol to - because, come on, how's a person supposed to fall asleep without an anesthetic drip? - is a candidate for a manslaughter charge • missing nose of • rabbi friend of once asked Katie Couric if she was available to go on a date with • signers of online petitions calling for Nobel Peace Prize nomination for seem destined to be disappointed...
...strikes an emotional chord. And for most outsiders, dusty, remote Kashgar still holds a powerful romantic mystique. Enduring beside billowing sands and beneath glacial peaks, it has charmed and thrilled travelers from Marco Polo to the modern backpacker clutching a Lonely Planet guide. Its knife smiths and livestock bazaars drip with exoticism, exuding a living history at the edge of the world. But as Chinese authorities begin to smash Kashgar's ancient heart, its fabled allure may end up as just that - a fable...
...building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size to account for myriad new thrusts into, twists around and enclosures of Arab lands. (See a video about Israel...