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Right now in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a day's drive over rutted tracks northeast of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, they're counting the trees. Members of nearby indigenous communities, with help from the Bolivian green group Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) and the American nonprofit the Nature Conservancy (TNC), have fanned out across the Noel Kempff's 4.2 million acres (1.7 million ha), which range from Amazon rain forest to dry savanna. In the footsteps of howler monkeys and endangered black jaguars, they follow mapped plots in the forest, drive stakes into the ground and measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut down, wearing a guitar high on her chest, she could envelop Carnegie Hall with her powerful contralto as other vocalists might fill a phone booth. This was not some pruny European monarch but a stout, imperious queen of African-American music. She used that amazing instrument to bear witness to the pain and perseverance of her ancestors. Some folks sing songs. Odetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odetta: Soul Stirrer, 1930-2008 | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...number of buildings destroyed,” said the psychology professor. “The cost of semantics in this case happens to be $3.5 million per destructive event, according to the insurance policy.” Alec J. Kunkel ’12, a self-professed fan of Pinker, attended the seminar with the hope of getting his copy of the professor’s book autographed. “He has an ability to take immensely complex ideas and break them into grasp-able concepts that are comprehensible to everyone,” he said...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker Discusses Language | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe, a devout fan of Dom Prignon '53, sipped it throughout fittings for the dress she wore to John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962 and stocked a whole car full for a road trip with Danish paramour Hans Jorgen Lembourn. On the silver screen, its status turned larger than life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bubble | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...upstate New York to witness the men’s hockey team’s own version of “The Game.” Namely, I had never driven the six hours to Ithaca, New York, home of the Cornell Big Red and allegedly, the most raucous fan base in ECAC hockey.This year presented me with a special opportunity, because going to Cornell would enable me to attend two versions of “The Game” in less than 24 hours—provided that my partner, Courtney Skinner ’10, and I were...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HAMMIN' IT UP: On the Sports Road Again | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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