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...replacement tires for Yuma Sector's four-wheel drives is $10,000 per week. Nearly every living thing either is venomous or has spines--or both--as we discovered when we spent two days at a CBP outpost called Camp Desert Grip. While exploring an ash-blackened waste of extinct volcanoes near the dead heart of the Sonoran Desert, we came across one of the many graves alongside a trail known as the Devil's Highway. Lava stones on the cindered earth spelled out 1871. Undisturbed 137 years later--that's how you know you've reached the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...translation error, when Hebrew scripture was rendered into Greek, added to the allure of the creature now known as the unicorn. The wild ox, a now-extinct creature rendered in bas relief profiles with one horn, was translated in Greek as monokeros or one-horned. In the Latin bible of the Christian world that became unicornos and "unicorn" by the time the English translators of King James got to work. And so, God impresses His power upon Job by saying, "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Unicorn | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Hawaii Seal Species Confirmed Extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Percentage of Ojibwa speakers older than 60. Researchers are working to preserve the language before it becomes extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...read "A Furious Hunger," I sadly experienced déjà vu [March 17]. As a food technologist, I daily receive disquieting information on availability and rising prices. Several companies I deal with are becoming desperate as stocks of flax and corn, to name but two examples, are virtually extinct. You were certainly correct to cite biofuels and bad harvests as the key reasons for this scarcity. Several of our suppliers readily admit they have sold their stocks of sugar, corn and rapeseed to biofuel manufacturers simply because they can make a lot more money that way. I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

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