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This is the first installment of Lipstick Jihad, a regular column by Azadeh Moaveni, TIME's Tehran correspondent and author of Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran...
...AZADEH MOAVENI wrote Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Public Affairs...
Sometimes when she talks about her work, Azadeh Tabazadeh mischievously mentions talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who famously asserted that volcanoes are the cause of ozone depletion. "He was only half right," she says with a laugh. For as Tabazadeh and her colleagues have shown, volcanic eruptions do speed up the rate of ozone depletion--but only because their emissions combine with industrial pollution to create a destructive cocktail. Volcanic chlorine, for example, is water soluble, so it is quickly removed by rain. The sulfurous compounds that volcanoes spew out are another matter. These rise high into the atmosphere...
...might have been unable to perfect the sophisticated fuse needed to spread a cloud of sarin or VX gas half a mile wide, a lethal fog capable of killing thousands of people in its path. Such devices--used to trigger car air bags--are now common. --With reporting by Azadeh Moaveni/Cairo and Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...result in greater democracy and greater openness." But the Administration has never spelled out the extent to which it supports the reformers in Iran, much less said how it might help them. It should do so now. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Matthew Forney/Beijing, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Donald Macintyre/Seoul and Azadeh Moaveni/Cairo