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...time we have seen global warming potentially influencing the insect fauna is almost exactly the same period of time since the [European Union] opened up its trade barriers between member states. So in the last decade and a half we've been importing a lot more from Italy and Spain and Southern France and we've had this climatic change - so we have two potential causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Insect Found in London | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...raised the question of just what it means to be Brazilian. Many fans believe that when Brazilian players make it big and are signed to play for major European professional teams, they lose their identity and national pride. (Indeed, there are currently more than ten other countries, ranging from Spain and Portugal to Croatia, Poland and Japan, that have awarded citizenship to Brazilian pros in order to field them in their national soccer teams.) Players earning millions of dollars abroad on their pro teams don't have the same passion for representing the national team as do those that stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Wants Its Soccer Team Back | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...would expect. Despite tougher drug policies in the U.S., Americans were twice as likely to have tried marijuana than the Dutch, according to the survey. In fact, Americans were more likely to have tried marijuana or cocaine than people in any of the 16 other countries, including France, Spain, South Africa, Mexico and Colombia, that the survey covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Pastime: Smoking Pot | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

Kabbalah cohered and still revolves around its essential book, the Zohar--a gargantuan work penned in 13th century Spain by Moses de León--that explores divine mysteries under the guise of a commentary on the Torah. But it wasn't until the 18th century emergence of Hasidism as a Jewish movement in Eastern Europe that Kabbalah began to expand beyond its tiny group of scholars. Many Kabbalist masters, however, were killed in the Holocaust, causing the practice to languish temporarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Kabbalah | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

BARCELONA, Spain — The minutes move differently here. Their texture is strange, their flavor almost unrecognizable. Half-past three doesn’t feel the same. Neither does midnight...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Time Out of Time | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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