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Although tanzanite was formed some 585 million years ago, it was not "discovered" until 1967. Nomadic Masai tribes had pried balls of the stone from outcroppings on the surface of the earth, but it was only when outsiders noticed that the stone took off. One of them, Manuel D'Souza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing a New Stone | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

While Cantabrigians shouldn’t necessarily count on next winter’s weather to be as erratic, Jacob said they should expect more “freaky” warm-weather events from global warming.

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frigid February Hits Cambridge | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

The story of contemporary North Korea is almost universally told as the tale of one man: Kim Jong Il, the all-powerful dictator whose idiosyncrasies and erratic behavior overshadow the more mundane lives of his 23 million subjects. So it's a bit of a surprise to realize that Kim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyongyang Confidential | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

China has the most difficult task of all the participants in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program that begin Monday in Beijing. As the chief patron of the North Korean regime - China supplies up to half the country's food requirement and even more of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Feels the Heat | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

If not Putin, who might want Litvinenko dead? Plenty. Russian Mafia bosses whose networks he was still prying into, for example, or rogue FSB officers who had been paid to rub him out by those who wanted to hurt Berezovsky. Perhaps the culprit was someone who wanted to frame Putin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Spy Who Knew Too Much | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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