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This weekend marks the Ivy League opener for Penn (3-1-2) and Harvard (1-5-1). Both teams look to start their Ancient Eight schedules off on the right foot, working towards the automatic entry into the NCAA tournament that accompanies an Ivy League crown...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quaker Matchup Offers Chance To Start Anew | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...agree to attend the summit himself - as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has done. He spent much of his speech focusing on the need for major developing nations like China to make their own moves on climate change, which sounded a little hypocritical after years of American foot-dragging. "It was great to have a visionary speech with the right word from Obama," says Steve Howard, the CEO of the Climate Group, an international nonprofit group focused on global warming. "But with so little time left, we needed more substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wind Shift Coming in the Global-Warming Debate? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...Kokang Army. The junta's lightning strike on the Kokang capital Laogai, which is estimated to have caused some 200 civilian casualties, left the other alliance members ill-equipped to respond immediately. But exile groups in China and Thailand are reporting that the Wa - which, with some 25,000 foot soldiers and an arsenal of heavy artillery, is the strongest of the rebel armies - is providing support to the shreds of Kokang forces still fighting, as well as giving sanctuary to Kokang leader Peng Jiasheng. With the junta reinforcing troop levels in the country's north, another ethnic militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Burma's War | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Hare's later research revealed that while chimps and even wolves lack an innate ability to understand what pointing means, dogs come by the knowledge naturally. They're not limited to reading hands and fingers alone. Dogs understand what Hare means if he points with his foot or sets a piece of wood on top of a container with food inside. Even puppies understand, which means it can't be a skill they need to learn. "This is something that dogs just do," says Hare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...football, a game that for most people is something seen only on television. Jones thinks more of those people should be coming out to games - preferably the ones his team is playing. He likes to point out that just 7% of National Football League fans have ever set foot in an NFL stadium, and he figures that the way to push that percentage higher is to make the stadium experience better than what you get at home. (See 10 things to watch this NFL season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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