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...time for people to go on vacation--if they are going into nature--with a certain amount of humility. The virtue of humility, like silence, is nearly extinct. But humility, if you see what I mean, opens doors. Noise destroys everything. Noise is an idiot...
...card datum 27. Miller's __ from the Bridge 28. China has tentatively agreed to lend two to the National Zoo 29. 32-Across, to Birch 30. Nullify 31. They've announced that they'll stop rewarding or fining HMO doctors 32. Fall back 33. Pokes fun at 35. Extinct kin of the kiwi 37. The People's Court figure 38. "Very funny!" 41. Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century 43. __ out (relax) Can't wait till next week for this week's answers? Visit our website at time.com...
...Among their descendents in today’s fast-paced urban Boston, the old ways, though not entirely extinct, are fast fading. “Lifestyles have changed,” says Robert Minturn ’61, a member of the Somerset Club. “Young people work-they have a sandwich at their desk and then go to the gym for 40 minutes. They won’t spend an hour and a half at the Somerset in the middle of the day.” Even the older crowd is more likely to power-lunch...
...which the ancestors of many of today's African mammals roamed the rich grasslands and forest fringes between 1.5 million and 2 million years ago. The environment was not too different from the wetter grasslands of Africa today, but it was full of amazing animals that are now long extinct...
...figure out the potential here. Excess stomach acid causes great misery in millions of human beings. Perhaps the frog secreted a compound that could help chemists develop a new drug to relieve some human stomach ailments. Maybe so, but we'll never know. The Australian gastric-brooding frog went extinct in 1980, long before a drug company could uncover its secret...