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...more crucial to remember that Kerviel is just like Law: Uncontrolled plans may prove profitable in the short run, but can and eventually do descend into chaos. It is those that get “carried away” who make for “le capitalisme sauvage...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: When It Hits the Fan | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...well-organized acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing were well planned, financed and rehearsed by Orange Democratic Movement leaders prior to the general elections." That charge made explicit the specter now haunting what has historically been one of Africa's most stable and tourist-friendly nations - that it might descend into the kind of ethnic slaughter seen in Rwanda in 1994. On Thursday, Kenya will confront those fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya on the Verge of a Showdown | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

Three days a week, the students in Science A-47, “Cosmic Connections,” descend on Science Center B—the building’s largest lecture hall—for class...

Author: By Sue Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gone Are Enrollments of Cosmic Scope | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9 million visitors since it opened, and it's still one of Britain's top attractions, more popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rain forests and Mediterranean farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Cornwall | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9 million visitors since it opened, and it's still one of Britain's top attractions, more popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rainforests and Mediterranean farms. Enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.K. Takes Green to the Extreme | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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