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The huge and wild Big Island of Hawaii is made up of roughly 4,000 square miles (10,000 sq km) and about a dozen microclimates (including one that generates winter snow), and has about 37 inhabitants per square mile. Not one but five of Pele's volcanoes reside on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Close and Personal with Hawaii's Volcanoes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Besides the cost to U.S. taxpayers of prosecuting all those extraditados - which often involves transportation and housing for witnesses, hiring bilingual lawyers and translating paperwork - tens of thousands of dollars are also spent annually to incarcerate each foreign detainee. What's more, for every Don Diego, there are dozens who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Nujood's ordeal began last February, when the family gathered to celebrate her wedding to a motorcycle deliveryman in his 30s. She first set eyes on the groom when she took her marriage vows. After spending her wedding night with her parents and 15 brothers and sisters, Nujood was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the tremors are being felt across hundreds of Mexican indigenous communities that use forms of bride prices - which can include farm animals and soda as well as cash and beer. The Greenfield incident is the most high-profile U.S. court case ever to involve an indigenous Mexican marriage, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Brides: Native Mexican Custom or Crime? | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

This, despite repeated pleas from border Democratic officeholders, residents with family and business ties on both sides of the river, and conservationists who fear their 30-year effort to string parcels of land into a necklace of treasured preserves for native fauna and flora will be destroyed as the acreage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opponents of the Border Fence Look to Obama | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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