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TIME ARCHIVE timearchive.com Iran's recent decision to resume work on its uranium-enrichment program has heightened tensions with other countries. That's not a new situation, as we noted in an Aug. 17, 1987, cover story, "Iran vs. the World," which described that country's longtime confrontational stance. TIME quoted an Iranian expert who stated, "To be perceived as nonrevolutionary in Iran is the kiss of death." Read more at timearchive.com
...modernist spectrum is the bomb, and when Alice flies to Japan to meet up with her mentor, she is forced to confront its legacy. Visiting the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, she is stopped in her tracks not by the wall clock frozen forever at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, or the array of appalling statistics (73,884 dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much the same...
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...ceiling of Richard Jones' house in Biloxi, Miss., had just caved in, revealing that his roof had been torn away. That was the good news. Half a mile away on that afternoon of Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina sent up 30-ft. storm surges, Jones, 53, knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi...
...soldiers of Blue Platoon don't need to be told that. On Aug. 23, with four insurgent video cameras rolling, al-Zarqawi's group sent a truck bomb under cover of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades straight into their observation post. The explosion knocked the entire platoon--more than 30 troops-- unconscious. They recovered and fought back, only to be hit by the mini-Tet three months later. Until the U.S. begins a withdrawal, it's up to soldiers like those of Blue Platoon to man the bunkers. "After the truck bombing," says Gronski, "every one of them...