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Second, Harvard should ascertain the effects of prolonged exposure to high levels of THMs and inform the community of the results. How much are students at risk? As Cambridge resident and water-quality activist Alexandra Hewer said, "The public has not been educated" about the danger of THMs...
Though the city was swiftly closed to foreigners, TIME Washington correspondent David Aikman and photographer Alexandra Avakian of Woodfin Camp & Associates, on assignment for another story, happened to fly into Dushanbe on Monday. Until they returned to Moscow two days later, they were the only Western journalists to be eyewitnesses to the Tadzhik uprising...
...streetlamps we see the damage: smashed storefront windows, the charred, upturned carcass of a municipal Volga sedan and, farther off, burned- out city buses. Alexandra takes a picture of a trashed photography store...
...mullah takes the microphone and sings out the traditional Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading...
...Tanks have roared through the streets all night, and the army has pushed its perimeter half a block from our hotel. The Tadzhiks are really furious and glance with undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention...