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...have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang-unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Protect Public Land, Eco Protesters Get Creative | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

...Metal (monkey, rooster, dog): resolute and intense, can be stubborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chinese Zodiac | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

...Monkey (independent, enthusiastic, unscrupulous, childlike personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chinese Zodiac | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

...January to late February. According to legend, the calendar was created by Ta Nao, a minister of Emperor Huang Ti's, and has been used in Asia since 4000 B.C. It is based on 12 temperaments represented by 12 symbolic animals - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig (the dragon being the well-known favorite). After 12 years, the cycle restarts, matching the length of Jupiter's solar orbit. (Read "China Not So Bullish About the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chinese Zodiac | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

...yoga,” and “yes” kept popping up as well. I immediately signed up for every house yoga program in a ten-block radius. I didn’t find her; yet somewhere between mastering the Perching Crane and Precocious Monkey, I realized that all I had earned for myself was a hernia and a totally new outlook on shit. I decided to drown my sorrows in that sweet elixir of forgetfulness: foam. As I entered Mather Lather, shower cap and lufa in hand, I caught a glimpse of her, a fleeting image that...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Sex in Houghton | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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