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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Woods' absence does change the competition, though. Without him in the field, guys like Bo Van Pelt can win tournaments. Quietly. Woods touches everything in golf. Tirico described the ratings disparity between events Woods plans and those he skips as "frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Gets Mulligan from the TV Networks | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...movie does improve once it gets into the lush underground. That's largely because of the introduction of a moderately entertaining character named Buck (Simon Pegg), an eye-patch-wearing weasel who lives for the thrill of a dinosaur hunt. He's wisecracking, swashbuckling and, even with a pelt, harks back to Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

Remember the Alamo. Texas likes to do things big, and the 11-day Fiesta San Antonio, commemorating the battle of the Alamo, boasts over 100 different events, including a parade in which people on horse-drawn carriages pelt each other with flowers, a military parade, oyster bakes and carnivals. From April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrate! It's Spring Festival Season | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...perfectly spaced rows and columns draw attention to the mesmerizing symmetry and subtle differences in shading among the shells. Each turn in the gallery provides something more brilliant, exotic, and impressive than what lay behind, from the graceful sweeping plumage of the Resplendent Quetzal to the full zebra pelt mounted on the wall. The ostentatious collection of blue butterflies provides examples of a hue more brilliant than even a Mark Rothko painting; the display of iridescent beetles looks like a showcase for some Egyptian-revival scarab jewels; and the images of the flaps of skin on lizards beneath the chins...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Color Dazzles in Animal Kingdom | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...such optimism in the book. The wolves - those symbols of perfect freedom - are exterminated by officials as part of a plan to turn the grasslands over to large-scale farming, and Chen Zhen, the protagonist, can find only hackneyed, metaphysical solace as he meditates upon a wolf-cub pelt, imagining the cub's spirit in "the place where all the souls of Mongolian wolves that had died in battles over the millennia congregated." One is left wondering if millions of Chinese readers also believe that freedom only waits in heaven, or if they feel it to be something worth striving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pack Man | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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