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...September 2012, three years after the onset of a virus with catastrophic consequences. Weeds have sprouted and flourished in Times Square. Tattered billboards for Broadway shows mock the desolation of the place, which is now ugly, cratered and overrun by wildlife - kind of what it was like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring...
CONTEXT Much like an oil spill, rat spills can wreak havoc on delicate ecosystems and are a major problem for many far-flung islands. One of Alaska's western Aleutians was even named Rat Island after it was overrun by the critters following a shipwreck in the 1780s...
...Denmark has achieved its success has made it a darling of European social democrats and American liberals, and the country has been overrun lately with visiting journalists, academics and politicians looking for insights. One of the things a visitor discovers, though, is that Denmark's size and homogeneity--5.4 million people, of whom all but 478,000 are of Danish ancestry--are crucial to how the economy works. "We've been one small nation for 1,000 years," says Hans Skov Christensen, who as director general of the Confederation of Danish Industries negotiates the nationwide bargaining agreements between management...
TIME You canceled a TV show to mark the 100-day milestone because of a $65 million budget overrun. What happened...
...League and seventh in the standings. Princeton sits atop the league with a perfect 11-0 conference record, and Penn is close behind, in second place at 9-2.Both matches were characterized by stretches of competitive play by Harvard, but in both cases, the Crimson was eventually overrun by its opponents.PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 1Entering Saturday’s match against Harvard, the Tigers had not lost a home match in Dillon Gym since 2005, and this weekend was no different. Top-ranked Princeton out-hit and out-blocked the Crimson en route to a convincing victory.Poor hitting cost the Crimson...