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Britain's biggest ever cash robbery, some $93 million stolen from a depot, prompted a huge manhunt last week. Local police first said the theft had been "executed with military precision." Really? Now it looks more like a comedy of errors. Future tips: DON'T FORGET THE BLINDFOLDS: Gang members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Ways to Improve Your Next $93 Million Heist | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

?Lorena Feijóo, 35, San Francisco Ballet. Feijóo doesn't so much dance her roles as attack them with a torrid, all-out intensity, yet she never loses precision and control. Her fiery virtuosity blazes in such ballets as Giselle and Don Quixote. Unlike Carreño, she left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! The Cubans Are Coming | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

(2 of 2) The proud town was in need of a lift when it bid for the Winter Games in 1998. As the bulk of Fiat's production moved away, the once-elegant city feared it might share the rusting fate of American carmaking capitals. So in the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torino Gets Stoked | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

Ours is a recommitment to liberal education. "Among the liberal arts," wrote Montaigne, "let us begin with the art that liberates us." [3] Montaigne was referring to a process whereby previously unexplored beliefs and values are challenged as well as unsuspected dimensions of the self discovered and nurtured in order...

Author: By William C. Kirby | Title: Dean Kirby's Letter to the Faculty on Progress of Curricular Review | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

The most persuasive piece of evidence in the new study, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and published in Nature, is a graph that shows both annual changes in average temperature and the number of frog extinctions per year on the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Why Are These Frogs Croaking? | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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