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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Think you're a frequent flyer? Then talk to the whitethroat, a common warbler found throughout much of Europe and western Asia, which migrates on average an incredible 3,417 miles each year, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa. (Americans, by contrast, fly about 2,000 miles each year per capita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Warbler's Long Winter Journey Gets Longer | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...again Harvard will lean on its big hitters to carry the load. Weissbourd is currently sixth in the nation with 5.28 kills per set, as well as third in the country in service aces and tenth with 1.40 blocks per set. The rookie Jones is second on the team with 3.06 kills per set, and Weintraub is 13th in the nation in assisting his attackers with 12.35 per...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Poised To Claim Hay Division | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Midway through the period, Feinberg, who came into the game ranked sixth in the country with 3.91 points-per-game, scored his second goal of the night when teammate Thomas Muldoon found him from behind the net and he ripped a shot past Pike...

Author: By Kerry E. Kartsonis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Falls in Defensive Battle | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...century. All of the recent bank bailouts and mortgage plans will, even if they succeed, build an economic foundation of bricks without straw - ready to crumble - if we don't create a productive economy again. That means creating a workforce that is educated well enough to produce more value per capita than other countries. This will be especially true in the 21st century economy, which promises to be based foremost on knowledge. And that is why the U.S. needs, particularly at this juncture, 21st century American standards for its schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...reflexive analogies, this is not the 1930s, when Babe Ruth took a $10,000 salary cut (roughly what A-Rod earns per swing) and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker told theaters to show only cheery films. And yet we're channeling our grandparents, who were taught, like a mantra, to use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without. Now, if you can make it, you don't have to buy it: just replace the lawn with a vegetable garden, eat your fill and then store whatever is left. Sales of canning and freezing supplies rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Recession: America Becomes Thrift Nation | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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