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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...five books don’t intersect so much as lie tangent to one another. Instead, they remain in orbit around the novel’s center, the Mexican border city of Santa Teresa (the fictionalized Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from San Jose, TX) where scores of women are raped and murdered every year without a major conviction...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Topography of Hell: Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’ | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...structure against other known languages using a computer program. Every language, the scientists suggest, possesses what is known as "conditional entropy": the degree of randomness in a given sequence. In English, for example, the letter t can be found preceding a large variety of other letters, but instances of tx and tz are far more infrequent than th and ta. "A written language comes about through this mix of built-in rules and flexible variables," says Mayank Vahia, an astrophysicist at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai who worked on the study. Quantifying this principle through computer probability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...Most Ozone-Polluted Cities: 1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA 2. Bakersfield, CA 3. Visalia-Porterville, CA 4. Fresno-Madera, CA 5. Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Our Air: Breathing Still Not Easy | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Cleanest Cities for Short-Term Particle Pollution: 1. Alexandra, LA 2. Amarillo, TX 3. Austin-Round Rock, TX 4. Bismarck, ND 5. Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Our Air: Breathing Still Not Easy | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Dallas Museum of Art, through March 15, 2009, is Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, which includes 20 works by the artist exploring the interplay of light, color and space. The large-scale installations make you feel like you're strolling through a kaleidoscope. 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Classic Old Bars | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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