Search Details

Word: zebra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...next day, I join Tinka and a group of other Masai on a drive out of the protected reserve into Masai communal grazing lands. The only sign that we've crossed over is a line of cow tracks. Zebra and topi antelope graze under acacia. Tinka points out branches stripped of bark. "They have been cleared by elephants," he says. A few more bends in the road and we've arrived at the Koiyaki Guide School, where Tinka is one of 26 students being trained for work in the reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Blackboard Jungle | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

Given the circumstances (Tijuana's 843 murders last year doubled 2007's), it takes moxie to launch such a campaign. Number one on the list: "Take a picture with the famous Tijuana zebra donkey." Number 75: Get out of town by "Flying direct to Narita, Japan, from Tijuana Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Whether that comes from Nadal himself is tough to say. Tennis stars can remain children long into their careers. Many players turn pro in their mid-teens. In the player's lounge at the Paris Masters, top pros in their late teens or early twenties lay around on faux-zebra-skin couches while their managers hustled the phones. The most popular section of the players' restaurant was a wall filled with jars of candy and licorice, and back at the hotel players spent a good portion of their time playing video games together. Even in this setting, there has always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Nadal's New Spin | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Universal Waste follows in the footsteps of Team Zebra, a blog which covered UC elections in 2006 and 2007. Matthews said Sundquist, having already run for president, realizes that the process is “a little ridiculous...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Current UC President and Vice President Start Blog to Probe Election | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...director-writers Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath) in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is the surest money-getter this year short of an email to Obama supporters. The first film sent four denizens of New York City's Central Park Zoo - Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) - across several seas to an island off Africa. Madagascar was Oz with even more monkeys. It was smart, sitcommy and nicely congested. The sequel is more of the agreeable, strenuous same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Madagascar 2 | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next