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...GIANT PANDA Weight: Up to 275 lbs. Length: Up to 6 ft. 4 in. Range: Mountainous areas of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in western China How dangerous: Not. The giant panda is extraordinarily shy and will avoid contact with humans at all costs Status: Highly endangered; no more than 1,000 remain in the wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaring Back | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Western Hills area of Peking, usually with Vice Premier Wan Li and Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Deng has a fondness for pomelos, a grapefruit-like citrus fruit grown in Sichuan, and he sometimes places special orders for them. He is also a world-class smoker, lighting one Panda-brand cigarette after another in his meetings and audiences. Deng recently declared to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "Mine is a hands-off policy, I let other people do things." On the visible evidence, that is just another sly Deng understatement. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by David Aikman/Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deng Xiaoping: The Comeback Comrade | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...will be exquisitely aware of the difference between the two. The news that Spears and her hubby Kevin Federline, 27, are expecting a baby moved the celebrity press into warp drive, and it's a safe bet this gestation period will be more closely watched than an endangered panda's. Among the first into action: Parents magazine, which released a poll it took before the pregnancy became public, in which more than half of parents said the couple should wait to start a family. What, and miss out on all this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop-Star Procreation | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...2004’s underground hype would probably buzz in within picoseconds. “This is obviously another spinoff from Animal Collective—the critically-acclaimed two-piece that dominated the ’04 with long-player Sung Tongs and a solo debut from member Panda Bear. Next question, please...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grizzly Bear Feeds on Psych-Folk | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

Meet Joe Stroll, a self-professed marlin wrestler, panda trainer, mime, closet Starbucks employee and the newest drummer for the Harvard-bred art-rock band, the States...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alums Balance Work with Rock | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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