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Today, those highways are in pretty bad shape. More than 90% of China's 160 million acres (400 million hectares) of grasslands are classified as "degraded," slowly losing the diverse collection of native plants that normally flourish there and fueling the massive dust storms that blow across China every spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Life Back to Inner Mongolia | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

After the release of Bee Movie, Seinfeld plans to return to being a stand-up comic and quasi-stay-at-home dad. Home for Seinfeld (who made a reported $225 million for Seinfeld's syndication alone and appears almost annually on Forbes' list of richest celebrities) is an apartment overlooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Seinfeld Goes Back to Work | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

The air of respectable wealth surrounding the three-story villa that houses the E.G. Bührle collection is in keeping with its quiet residential neighborhood in Zurich. But it doesn't begin to betray the priceless treasure inside: one of the world's most impressive private collections of European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Eye for Quality | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

Swiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956) studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection. Since 1960, his family's foundation has put around 200 of the works on public display.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Eye for Quality | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

Not sure what to hang on your walls? Get your eye in focus with a three-day course on the art of owning art. Sotheby's Institute of Art in London, an independent spinoff of the famous auction house, combines lectures and field trips to contemporary art fairs to train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Owning Art | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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