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...Come to nothing" is not a slogan ever likely to draw amusement-park crowds. Which is why most visitors to South Africa, steered to Kruger National Park in the northeast and to the coastal vineyards of the southwest, often don't notice the country is half scrub. That two-hour flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town? That was the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Karoo: Dazzling Desolation | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...hour-long film, “An Islamic Conscience: The Aga Khan and the Ismailis,” depicted the spiritual leader’s message of religious tolerance as well as his heavy funding of development organizations in Asia and Africa to help eliminate poverty, to support women’s rights, and to promote Islamic art and architecture...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Documentary Depicts Life Of Islamic Leader | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator to boot—these factors aren’t what compel me to make the 21-hour train ride back to Illinois.I’ll play my cards face up: I’m a devotee of the “Crash” theory on social relations.As outlined in Don Cheadle’s opening speech, the “Crash” theory argues...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Cambridge Express | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...pasture. She lost both legs at the hip, and is only just now learning to walk on prosthetics. She is progressing well, but worries that her new legs - shod in bright red Adidas - will not be able to handle the pathways in her mountain village, which is a three-hour drive from Kabul. Still, she says, any help at all is a boon. "Before this, I was crawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Decade of De-mining | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...near the industrial port of Hartlepool in northeastern England. He never returned home. In short order, an oar from Darwin's kayak washed up on a local beach. A search team of lifeboats, a Royal Navy ship and a Royal Air Force helicopter mobilized for a frantic, 16-hour search. His yellow life vest was found, but no trace of Darwin was discovered. When the splintered remains of his tiny vessel drifted ashore six weeks later, he was presumed drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Returned From the Sea | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

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