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With this week's issue time has a new managing editor, James R. Gaines, the 13th in a line of succession that goes back to the magazine's founding in 1923. He replaces Henry Muller, who is moving up the masthead to join me in the management of all our Time Inc. magazines as the company's editorial director...
...13th of each month, eight to 120 people take off all their clothes, lather up with shaving cream, and run around campus leaving their imprints on people's dorm room doors," Thornton says...
Precisely at noon, the chanting of the Rosary begins. Most days this gathering in Conyers, 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, numbers a few dozen. But if it is the 13th of the month, the count may swell as high as 20,000, as travelers from across the country arrive to see the monthly visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. "We thought we would come just for the blessings, not necessarily to be healed," says Karen Horne of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 17 years and been in a wheelchair for the past five. Duquelia Dickerson...
...Cairo suburb uncover foundations of a 4,600-year-old working-class neighborhood; a subway project in Rome reveals a long-dead Pope's toothbrush; improvements in Red Square during the twilight of the Soviet empire unearth wooden homes built before Moscow had its first prince in the 13th century. In the next millennium, construction workers in Cairo, Rome and Moscow will no doubt be puzzling over traces of current cultures. As the triumphant remake the world's cities, the shards of the vanquished are literally trodden into the ground...
...Contemplating the small courtyard that still contains fragments of the boyhood home of Marco Polo, one wonders: Did memories of almost this same scene sustain the 13th century adventurer in his wanderings? Or was happiness for him always the sight of Venice in the rear-view mirror...