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Tigers are what is known as charismatic megafauna - the sort of big, well-known animal that tends to be good marker of a jungle's ecological health - and green groups are taking advantage of the Chinese new year to press for better protection. They face a battle on many fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Valentine? Celebrate the Year of Tiger Instead | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

Although laws in 26 states in the U.S. ban the private ownership of tigers, conservationists would prefer stronger regulations that would allow the government to track the population of tigers kept in captivity and ensure they are being treated humanely and not being farmed for parts. Most of all, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Valentine? Celebrate the Year of Tiger Instead | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

But what exactly does that mean? And why is Buzz any different from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn? And doesn’t the name Buzz evoke images of annoying mosquitoes? These were the initial questions that ran through our heads as we got used to Buzz in Gmailâ?...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What’s the Buzz about Buzz? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

Speak to enough good people from the Netherlands, however, and you begin to appreciate their love of the sport. Ice-skating began more than 1,000 years ago, on the frozen canals and waterways of Scandinavia and Holland. By the 1600s, speed skating became a useful form of transportation for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explaining the Crazy Dutch Love of Speed Skating | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

The fact is, von Hohenlohe is a talented skier who has somehow met the Olympic qualifying standards at 51 - and it was infinitely easier for him to do that as an athlete from Mexico where no one skis, than from Austria, where the sport is a national obsession and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is a German Prince Skiing For Mexico? | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

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