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...Bears countered soon after, though, with a strong game plan of their own—the team sank two goals in less than a minute. The fourth period ended with the scored knotted at six, and the game extended into overtime...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Defeats Brown in Rivalry | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...latest Sam update: he is 20, studying industrial design and father to an 8-month-old boy, Jax. Lamott didn't expect to become a grandmother this soon (she's about to turn 56). "My heart sank," she admits. "But I have written a lot of books about faith, and it was really money-where-your-mouth-is time." Jax "has just been an absolute blessing every step of the way," she says. She keeps perspective: it's better to gain a child to love than to lose one. And being a grandmother is a blast, she says. "It really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

After stormy weather appeared to have caused the death of one rescue diver, the South Korean military temporarily halted its search for 46 missing sailors from the Cheonan, a 1,200-ton naval ship that sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26 after an explosion ripped a hole in its hull. Despite initial suspicion of North Korean involvement, authorities have deferred judgment until the ship is recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Forty years ago, Richard O'Barry watched Kathy, a dolphin in the 1960s television show Flipper, kill herself. Or so he says. She looked him in the eye, sank to the bottom of a steel tank and stopped breathing. The moment transformed the dolphin trainer into an animal-rights activist for life, and his role in The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary about the dolphin-meat business in a small town in Japan, has transformed him into a celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Animals Commit Suicide? A Scientific Debate | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

...shores of Africa. On Feb. 26, China's Ministry of Commerce announced it was funding a three-year project with the assistance of the Kenyan government to search for Ming-era vessels that had supposedly foundered off the East African coast. "Historical records indicate Chinese merchant ships sank in the seas around Kenya," Zhang Wei, a curator for a state museum, told China's official Xinhua news agency. "We hope to find wrecks of the fleet of the legendary Zheng He." (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Zheng: China's Ming-Era Voyager | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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