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...expensive. They are not poor the way people in Africa are. They have their gardens and the river, but they do not have cash." Exploiting this cash vacuum are some unscrupulous artifact dealers who travel up and down the river, taking advantage of its people's poverty to mine a rich vein of cultural treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Head Hunters | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...cared for him, because they had to hack the road up there and carry his heavy coffin." Telefoni's memory of Tusitala, or "Writer of Tales," as he was known locally, is entwined with his own family history: "He had a very close relationship with an old uncle of mine." That man was Harry Moors, an American trader who helped secure the lands of Vailima for Stevenson, and whose daughter married Telefoni's grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure of the Islands | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

WHAT'S THE STRANGEST THING SOLD ON AMAZON? You know bird spikes, those things you put on ledges and buildings to keep pigeons from landing? A friend of mine e-mailed me that he looked everywhere for them and found that Amazon had all different sizes. You can buy stainless-steel bird spikes, polycarbonate bird spikes. We have the whole bird-spike array...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jeff Bezos | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...expect it,” he added. “I know that the work that they’re talking about is really the work of dozens of colleagues of mine...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Health Expert Knighted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

While discussing the problem that is my summer with a wise friend of mine, I was effectually told to quit bitching and enjoy the free time that this break provides while I still have...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley, | Title: The Joys of Joblessness | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

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