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...daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blast from the Past | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...have regrouped, attacked remote government outposts, held positions for a few days--and then, usually, vanished at the first whup-whup of approaching U.S. Blackhawk helicopters. Not last week. After ambushing a small garrison in Zabul province, several hundred Taliban fighters hid in a needle-thin gorge known as Moray Pass, waiting to attack U.S. troops and their Afghan allies. Shielded by overhanging rock, the Taliban were protected from U.S. bombers and helicopters, and fighting raged for several days. Local villagers reported seeing Taliban fighters scrambling up the hillside carrying their dead and wounded. Zabul's provincial governor, Hafizullah Hashami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report From Afghanistan: That Other War | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

Earth's biodiversity (short for biological diversity) is organized into three levels. At the top are the ecosystems, such as rain forests, coral reefs and lakes. Next down are the species that compose the ecosystems: swallowtail butterflies, moray eels, people. At the bottom are the variety of genes making up the heredity of each species. How much biodiversity is there? Biologists have described a total of between 1.5 million and 1.8 million species. Yet this impressive achievement is only a small beginning. Estimates of the true number of living species range, according to the method employed, from 3.6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Before Our Eyes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...with world's largest Van de Graffe generator to make hair stand on end. There are a whole lot of other neat exhibits on everything from the space program to wave mechanics and blood pressure. The Aquariam boasts a huge, four-story-high fish tank with sharks, sea turtles, moray eels, tarpons, spotted eagle rays, and other fun sea creatures. Even if you decide not to pay the admission price, don't miss the seals which swim around in a tank outside the entrance...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: What to do if you Miss The 7:30 A.M. Newport Bus | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

Mary, Queen of Scots chronicles the seven-year period from Mary's return to Scotland in 1561, the widow of the King of France, to her flight to England in 1568, forced by her half brother James Stewart, Earl of Moray. Musgrave, the composer and the wife of Artistic Director Mark, also wrote the libretto. Her story crackles with emotional tension: between Mary, young, lovely and impulsive; James, who craves power; the hotheaded soldier, the Earl of Both well; and the weak courtier, Lord Darnley, her cousin who becomes her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Queen Mary in Virginia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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