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...When he began to speak there was an instant rapport there, with not just the students, but faculty and staff,” Adams said...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Prof To Lead Dartmouth | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agatha Christie's Private Escape, and Other Travel Goodies | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agatha Christie's Private Escape, and Other Travel Goodies | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...Iglesias yelled 20 minutes later, before I even realized he was out of his hammock and inspecting the perimeter net. In an instant, Amador was at his side, and the two men - wearing thick fire gloves - untangled the aggressive baby vampire from the net, grabbing it carefully as it squealed and hissed madly, trying to bite its handlers through their gloves. The veterinarians applied a poisonous gel to the body of the captured vampire and released it, allowing the animal to return to its roost, where the other bats - up to dozens in the colony - would dutifully lick it clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...small investment-broker community. To be sure, the exchange was producing annual nominal returns of 23 sextillion percent, but Zimbabwe's inflation rate is even higher, rendering the bourse's real return close to -35%. Still, the government was taking no chances. "People took every shortcut to get instant riches," Gideon Gono, Zimbabwe's central-bank governor, tells TIME. "We were protecting the innocent." (See pictures of Zimbabweans going to the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25-Min. Workweek on Zimbabwe's Stock Exchange | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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