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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Shimmying down the slopes toward the dry pools, he described the improvements he would make if he just had the money. The headworks at the natural glacier would direct water with more precision and efficiency. Stone channels would be widened so the water wouldn't freeze on its way down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Ice Man' vs. Global Warming | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

That was underscored when the main suspects in the Glasgow Airport bomb plot turned out to be doctors. According to a 2004 study by Marc Sageman, a former CIA officer and forensic psychiatrist, the stereotype of the jihadi as poor and uneducated needs revision. Of 400 terrorist suspects studied, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

De Monfreid meets, among others, an imprisoned spy (a "venomous reptile") whose escape he enables and later regrets; a Chinese trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Man of the Sea | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

Excellent music choices and clean and well-rehearsed footwork made the numbers by TAPS consistently entertaining. An easy-to-watch, smiling stage presence clearly conveyed how much fun the dancers were having. They set a lively tone for the evening with their company number, which Megan M. Powell â?...

Author: By Rachel M. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Too Darn Hot’ Warms Up Lowell Lecture Hall | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

The exquisite, sophisticated pianist, perhaps jazz's greatest, may have acquired some of his famed precision from the rough-hewn lessons of his father, who was known to beat him when he hit a wrong note, but Canadian Oscar Peterson's technical skills were only part of his genius. Peterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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