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...Olympic host city on Friday, it's easy to forget there will be a Summer Games between now and then. London is determined to put on a spectacular show in 2012, and given the city's early preparations, it may well achieve this goal. But just how far along are the key building and transportation projects, as well as plans for security? TIME offers a report card on the preparations with 1029 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London 2012: An Olympics Progress Report | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...city's Underground system for a number of years, including extending the Jubilee Line to Stratford for the Games. Four new stations are also being built on the Docklands Light Railway system in East London, including two in Stratford. But above ground, there have been a few bumps along the way. Every host city has to designate a network of roads, known as an Olympic Route Network, which will be used by athletes and officials to get to the event venues. London police have expressed concern that the lanes reserved for Olympic use could slow ambulances and increase congestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London 2012: An Olympics Progress Report | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...Vistas at Saddle Rock - which had a sparkling swimming pool and sat just beyond the city limits. Other residents noticed nothing about him except for his shuttle van. "We have people of all walks here," says Mike Callender, a warehouse manager who lives in Building B. "And everyone gets along." The perfect cover, in effect, was no cover at all. "We've known for a long time that al-Qaeda's ideal recruit is someone who is legally in the U.S., has no criminal record," says Rosenau, "someone completely invisible to authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enemy Within: The Making of Najibullah Zazi | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...past shrines, and crowds of roaring plebeians toward Rome's great Temple of Jupiter. Toga-clad senators and the families of prominent patricians followed ahead of conquering ranks of legionaries. Bulls were sacrificed, laurel wreaths donned. Chariots bore the plundered loot of subjugated tribes, and captured barbarians were yanked along in chains. Some of the slaves had instructions to mutter "Memento mori" (Remember you are mortal) to their captors - an ironic note in a propaganda play designed to bind the Roman public to its leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Parades | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...Yogyakarta on the island of Java, killing more than 5,000 people. (A day before Padang was jolted, a South Pacific earthquake triggered a tsunami around the Samoan islands and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, but scientists are expressing reservations that the two sets of seismic activity along the so-called Ring of Fire were related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indonesia, a City's Worst Fears Come to Pass | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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