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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have we responded to four decades of ever louder distress signals? We've staged a procession of Earth Days, formed Green parties, passed environmental laws, forged a few international treaties and organized global gabfests and photo ops like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. All the while, the decline of Earth's ecosystems has continued unabated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condition Critical | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...view part of the way. As much fun as the scenery is the train itself. Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel Pan, each 31 miles long. You can avoid cancellations due to snow by booking Argentine spring and summer trips--when it's fall and winter in the U.S. (El Maiten train station: 011-54-2945-49-5190). --By Uki Goni

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: 12 Terrific Train Trips | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...unwitting Names who believed that the Lloyd's mystique was fact instead of fiction. Now that your article has been published, all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put the myth of Lloyd's of London back together again. ELIZABETH BENCSICS Rio Rancho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 20, 2000 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...drunk Swiss and a drunk Canadian who whooped it up a bit too much at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro have been jailed for their hijinks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with bags of mob money and later rebuilt with the bounties of multinational entertainment cartels. The scene is almost as hot as the desert itself. The Beautiful People congregate nightly at The Beach and Club Rio. If that doesn't work out, there are always the cheap whores walking the street down by Circus Circus. If that doesn't work out, there's always a cheap room and $1 blackjack waiting back at the Western. This is Vegas--a tiny slice of hell just where...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

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