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Dressed in a green T-shirt, brown zip-up hoodie, jeans, and sneakers, the only hint that Charles C. Davis is a biologist comes from the stitching of a plant on his jacket arm. Around his office lies a Chopin CD, a bobblehead tiger (given to him by his mother), and an Indian decorative cloth that his friend gave him when Davis was planning to become an engineer...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walden Data Aids Climate Science | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Robert Irvin and junior Brendan McNally—went 16-21 for 132 yards while rushing for a team-leading 89 yards on 15 tries.The league’s weekly defensive honor was taken by another Quaker, as senior defensive back Britton Ertman led a suffocating defense that held Tiger Jordan Culbreath, the leading rusher of the Ivies, to 57 yards and forced a key fumble.The low-scoring contest epitomized Penn’s smashmouth style of football.“They obviously have not been a prolific offense,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Top of the League | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...familiar refrain across Ireland. After more than a decade of runaway growth, the good times have ended. In September the Celtic Tiger, the best performing economy in the euro zone by some stretch in recent years, became the bloc's first to officially slide into recession. After expanding at three times the E.U. average between 1996 and 2007, Ireland's economy is expected to shrink by 0.75% next year, according to government predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Economy: Celtic Crunch Time | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

Eastern Access. Travel between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur just got more convenient. Starting Dec. 1, Tiger Airways will beef up its schedule to five daily flights between the cities; the first flight departs Singapore at 6:10 a.m., and the last flight returns from Kuala Lumpur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Luxury Hotel Rooms on Sale | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

Maoism and the Cultural Revolution made that harder to do. Even indigenous opera was swept aside in favor of such turgid revolutionary works as The Red Detachment of Women and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Long experienced the suffocation of the musical arts in a more personal way than most when his grandfather, who had studied music in Paris, was sent to the country to work - but only after the Red Guards destroyed his musical library. "When I was five he started teaching me music anyway," Long says. "We were only allowed to learn revolutionary songs, but he taught them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernstein in Beijing: China's Classical Music Explosion | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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