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...researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Still, Zhang insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Pampered Pandas | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...pigskin may be brown, but game day is going green.  When the stadium lights flick on in Miami Feb. 4 for Super Bowl XLI, the world's most ballyhooed kickoff will be carbon neutral. In the past, the NFL has sponsored tree plantings to offset the hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases emitted during the event--from stadium lights and other fuel burners, like the buses that shuttle spectators around town. This year the league is partnering with alternative-energy provider Sterling Planet to use renewable-energy certificates (RECs) to promote the use of nonpolluting power sources. Lowering emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl for the Earth | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...give up, no way. I moved on and started thinking outside the box. I wanted something representative of how powerful we are but also something unique, different, that no one has ever thought of.Plants. Yes, plants. No one has a plant mascot, except for the Stanford tree, but they’re actually the Cardinal, so they make no sense because a cardinal is a bird. A plant would be unique, but only the Venus Flytrap could work to intimidate. And what about the kiddies? Kids hate Venus Flytraps, studies show.Finally, I cleared my mind, thought of everything Harvard represents...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wally's World: Harvard Shall Be Cantabs No More | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...Paris all the way to the cherry-blossom-filled gardens of Kyoto. One after another, models in geisha makeup and with orchids and ikebana arrangements caught up in their hair emerged in glorious confections that recalled hand-painted kimonos, origami folds and even the bark of a bonsai tree. Backstage, the designer described the show as Christian Dior meeting Puccini's Madama Butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Dreaming of Cherry Blossoms | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...chair and rocking back and forth as the words rattle out. "I give an average of 150 shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange and Learning Tree to Chicago's Discovery Center to the Open University in Washington. Zanker, who takes a modest $70,000 salary but holds $5.5 million worth of Annex stock, sweepingly dismisses the competition as "mom-and-pop operations." He has, however, bought out the Open University. "I am the Ziegfeld of adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bargains in Short-Order Courses | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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