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...Kendall and Paine Houses, which were donated in 1942 and 1958 and are located on the remote Sutton Island, generated $2.1 million and $2.5 million, respectively, for the University...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sells Off Houses In Maine | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...statistics show that deforestation for the last five months of 2007 was 3,235 sq. kilometers (1,250 sq. miles or about the size of Rhode Island), a rise from the previous year's figure and alarming because deforestation normally drops in the final rainy months of the year. In a world panicked by its own carbon footprint, the forests of the Amazon are the planet's largest absorber of carbon dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Amazon Gets Less and Less Green | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...Stanley banker has taken well to his new line of work - last year Tait attended 11 Burns Suppers stretching into February. It's early January when TIME donned the de rigueur kilt to join him as a Burns Supper guest at London's illustrious private Caledonian Club. "A little island of Scotland in Belgravia," as past chairman Alex Wilson puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bacchanal of Burns Night | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas?they arise from the evil in human nature. And by the way, Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." You have only to look at my home country, Ghana. Africa has been marginalized in the American media except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's efforts toward development as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, WORCESTER, MASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...uninformed, history's most famous maritime disaster may seem an odd choice for a city looking to put its tragic past behind it, but Belfast stakes a strong claim to the Titanic. After all, it was in the Harland and Wolff shipyard on the city's Queen's Island that the iconic liner was designed, built and launched. And the now rusting shipyard is the proposed site of the "Titanic Quarter," a shiny new residential and business district on the edge of Belfast Lough. The 185-acre development is the biggest regeneration project in Northern Ireland's history and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Titanic: 'She Was Alright When She Left Here' | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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