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...final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Writers love to prey on their own kind anyway, but what's so intriguing about Dickens is the disconnect between his life and his art. His novels are full of last-minute redemptions and neat resolutions, but his life was a mess worthy of reality TV. (Watch TIME's video about Dickens World...
...environment. Three decades of rapid, unchecked economic growth has turned many of the country's rivers into cesspools and lands into wastelands and much of its air into grimy soup. Some $30.9 billion has been officially allocated under the stimulus plan for "environmental projects" to help clean up the mess and put the country on a path to more sustainable development. The government of Jiangsu province, for example, recently announced a $16 billion plan to clean up Lake Tai, once famed for its beauty and abundant fish but now better known for the choking algae blooms caused by industrial runoff...
...entirely inoffensive educational philosophy to replace the Core, and the result (at least for current students) has been a raft of new names for old courses.The truth is that it was always possible, under the Core program, to obtain a worthwhile education at this university, and, despite the mess the Faculty has made of its reforms, it will continue to be possible under Gen Ed. There are professors here who teach only out of obligation and there are those who genuinely care about pedagogy, and the latter will continue to innovate whether or not a report tells them...
...have any obligations at the top of the mountain? We wanted a good photograph of our [Marie Curie cancer charity] flag. But it was a right mess-up. We were getting colder and colder and thinking it'd be safer to leave, but we had to talk into a camera and take a picture of the flag. We were meant to take pictures of seven sponsored items, including the satellite phone, but nobody had enough feeling to do any of that. (Watch TIME's video "Trekking Lebanon's Mountain Trail...
...Vladimir Osakovskiy, strategy and research head at Unicredit Bank, "The major message was that in the future the government will develop the budget using conservative oil price estimates. What we're seeing right now is an effort to clean up the mess." And what analysts will be eyeing with increased interest in coming months is whether the differences over the budget mark a new stage in Russia's most important political relationship: the one between Medvedev and Putin...