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...these tiny centipedes (about 0.4 in. long) were retrieved from samples of leaf litter as part of a biological dragnet conducted in 1998 for the Central Park Conservancy by researchers Liz Johnson and Kefyn Catley of the American Museum of Natural History. Their mission: to assess the health of the park's somewhat trampled woodland ecosystem in order to better preserve it. The creatures they collected were sorted and sent to various taxonomists for positive ID, which is how this one ended up in the hands of Richard Hoffman, curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City Centipede: An Urban Legend with Real Legs | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...past, the government would impose strict rules and hefty fines to shape social behavior?don't spit, don't litter, don't sell gum. But this time, because it knows Singlish is trendy, it's using the soft sell. Naturally, much of this has to do with semantics. Says SGEM head David Wong: "SGEM is not a campaign, it's a movement. In Singapore, you associate campaigns with the message that if you trespass, we're going to punish you. A movement is different. We want to adopt a more lighthearted approach." This lighthearted approach spawned the recent SGEM Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Words Over 'Singlish' | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...Princeton were big enough to use a Z-list like Harvard, it might not be able to lure away those students who had already agreed to attend Yale. But when it comes to admissions, Harvard effectively has its pick of the litter...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Princeton were big enough to use a Z-list like Harvard, it might not be able to lure away those students who had already agreed to attend Yale. But when it comes to admissions, Harvard effectively has its pick of the litter...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...army sent its heavily armored Caterpillar D-9 down what is now a rutted track; as you walk along it, up a mild gradient toward Hospital Street, your feet raise little puffs of dust from the rubble of what were once concrete homes. The path is covered with the litter of war--broken sea-green ceramic tiles, a punctured cooking-gas cylinder, a thin foam mattress, a blond-haired baby doll. As you make your way into the camp, the snarl of traffic in the town and the calls of peddlers recede, and when you reach Hospital Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Untangling Jenin's Tale | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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