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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Widener under construction is a fantastic world. Predictably monumental in summer, the building takes on an imperial quality against the pale blues and violet greys of a winter sky, perpetually half-scaffolded like a Christo installation or the Sphinx...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Unreal City | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...manage to escape, such memories take a heavy toll. "My soul is stained," said 19-year-old Olga recently, picking at her food back home in Moldova. "I can't forgive myself for trusting people." Across town, Marina says she wakes up most nights in a cold sweat, pale and shaking. She gobbles tranquilizers and smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. "People look at me and think I am either a junkie or an alcoholic," she told a reporter, glancing repeatedly over her shoulder. "This is no life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...drilling rigs is to be in awe of our industrial prowess. But to walk at sunset over the tundra of the refuge--where there is silence, an eternity of chill whiteness, a lone raven high overhead and the tracks of an Arctic fox leading toward snowcapped mountains under a pale sky of aquamarine and violet--is to be in awe of something far greater. America now faces the momentous decision of what to do with all this whiteness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...willies. Genetic engineering is indeed "inhumane" if we think only of those things to which humans have historically been accustomed--but then so is the railroad, wearing clothes and refraining from killing one another. Reasons are required to decide which new practices are acceptable and which beyond the pale...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: The False Apocalypse | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

...through his fingers did not seem at all special. But once their dark, crinkly husks were stripped away and the interiors polished to a glossy sheen, Potrykus could behold the seeds' golden secret. At their core, these grains were not the pearly white of ordinary rice but a very pale yellow?courtesy of beta-carotene, the nutrient that serves as a building block for vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains of Hope | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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