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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...adjacent to campus. The school considers gardening and raising animals integral to its curriculum. Under the tutelage of life-sciences teacher Paul Weertz, the young women built a barn one year and provide daily care for rabbits, horses, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys and peacocks. The students recently acquired a pig and, says principal Asenath Andrews, they're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Animal Husbandry | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...green walls and steep red staircase provide a backdrop for Saarinen tulip chairs and Sciolari chandeliers. Meantime, Heritage, tel: (63-2) 692 3469, purveys a wealth of Filipiniana, from rare editions of writings by Philippine national hero José Rizal to practical handbooks on the ins and outs of pig-rearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Factor: Manila's Footwear Expo | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Commander in Chief. Journalists Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson - current and former Washington Post reporters, respectively - capture the momentous contest in a polished account refreshingly free of last year's breathless soundbites, pundit insta-reaction or fixation on trifling gaffes (the maelstrom over President Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment warrants barely a mention). Instead, it provides an evenhanded and comprehensive account of the race, based on interviews with key players and enhanced by the perspective of time and distance. (Read Mark Halperin's Final Campaign Report Cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for America | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...learn the cause of Shanidar 3's wound, Churchill and his team used a specially designed crossbow to fire stone-age projectiles at precise velocities at pig carcasses (a pig's skin and ribs are believed to be roughly as tough as a Neanderthal's). When he stabbed a pig carcass with the force of a thrust spear, Churchill found that the pig's ribs "were busted to hell. The high kinetic energy had caused a lot of damage in the area." But Shanidar 3 had a solitary rib puncture with no such damage. (See pictures: Happy 200th Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CSI Stone Age: Did Humans Kill Neanderthals? | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...kinetic energies consistent with a thrown spear, the pig's rib bore damage resembling Shanidar 3's isolated rib puncture. What's more, Churchill found that the weapon that killed Shanidar 3 entered at about a 45-degree downward angle. According to Churchill, "That's consistent with the ballistic trajectory of a thrown weapon, assuming that Shanidar 3 - who was about 5 ft. 6 in. [1.67 m] tall - was standing." Churchill also found that Shanidar 3's rib had started healing before he died. By comparing the wound with wounds documented in medical records from the American Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CSI Stone Age: Did Humans Kill Neanderthals? | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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