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...effort to stop the advance of the desert and has set up a system of laws to manage the land from afar; herders are being relocated and it's now forbidden to graze on badly hit areas. The slow process of regrowth has started in limited areas, and the sand storms hitting Beijing have been less severe in the last few years. Though some scientists chalk uo the latter to fluctuations in weather, others say it's a sign that the grasslands are starting to return to health. "Maybe some places are getting better, but some places are getting worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Life Back to Inner Mongolia | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...videos: "Why are terrorists always working out on the monkey bars? Has there ever been a war where the decisive battle was fought on a children's playground?" And he says dryly, "Everything in Iraq seems to be going smoothly." Pause for the laugh. "Is it just all that sand and no beach that just drives everyone in the Middle East out of their freaking mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Seinfeld Goes Back to Work | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...with the bills' authors or the leadership on what can be done to appease DeMint's or Coburn's concerns; usually all they are asking for is a chance to debate and amend the bill - even if their amendments fail they still serve as a symbolic line in the sand. Increasingly, though, the group has started winning votes. Although the group's signature concern has been spending, their biggest victory was killing the immigration bill. They also held up the lobbying reform bill until much more stringent controls on earmark spending were included. Last December, just days after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate's G.O.P. Bomb Throwers | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...Whishaw. Blanchett plays prime-time Bob, the electrified folk-rock star who's getting annoyed by fame. The '70s, counterfeit-cowboy Dylan is Richard Gere. The movie leaps further into fancy by inventing Jake Rollins (Christian Bale), the Dylan character in a Hollywoodish '60s biopic called Grain of Sand, and Robbie Clarke (Heath Ledger), the actor who plays Jack. Is everyone confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dylan and the Beatles: Together Again! | 9/16/2007 | See Source »

...sophomore Nick Moseley combined to birdie 22 holes.“The course seemed pretty open, but everything was visible,” Shore said. “It was definitely an opportunity for someone on their game to score well.”When golfers imagine the sand hills of North Carolina, the fabled U.S. Open venue Pinehurst usually springs into their minds first. Yet, architect Donald Ross created another golfing gem in the 6515-yard Mid Pines Golf Club, whose relatively shorter length still demands players to hit a full complement of shots to get through eighteen holes...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Golf Takes Fourth in North Carolina | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

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