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All the birds are Magellanic penguins, which weigh about 7 lbs., stand about 18 in. and reach a top swimming speed of 15 m.p.h. In the wild, they would make migrations of 2,000 miles along the coast of South America. That equals 26,400 laps around the zoo's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Penguins On the Go | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

On one of the few clear days we’ve had this rainy autumn, I walked down Brattle Street to Mount Auburn Cemetery and wandered through acres furrowed with headstones and eroding statues. The sky was that distant hard blue you see only in the fall, and sunlight filled...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Spare Changes | 11/26/2002 | See Source »

The Alice books are forever--they are the most popular and best-loved works of children's literature. The Lewis Carroll problem is forever too. But it has been dropped back into our laps by a new exhibition and a fascinating new book. "Dreaming in Pictures" is a seductive show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malice in Wonderland? | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

I first saw the earth--the whole earth--from the shuttle Challenger in 1984. The view takes your breath away and fills you with childlike wonder. That's why every shuttle crew has to clean noseprints off their spacecraft's windows several times a day. An incredibly beautiful tapestry of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimpse Of Home | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

That experience counted for nothing. In all three offices, the memo was pretty much ignored, disappearing into the black hole of bureaucratic hell that is the FBI. That was the second key mistake. Sources tell TIME that the memo was never forwarded--not even to the level of Mike Rolince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The U.S. Missed The Clues | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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