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...slum whose residents made up the majority of the victims. At Adhamiya's ancient Abu Hanifa mosque, close to the Bridge of Imams, sermons routinely laud the jihadis who have been killing Shi'ite civilians and curse the Shi'ite-dominated government. Yet on Wednesday, the yellow-brick mosque became a makeshift triage station for emergency crews and a lost-and-found center for pilgrims separated from their loved ones in the stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bridge in Baghdad | 9/5/2005 | See Source »

What you have just tasted is the future of search. It will change the way humans interface with computers and make today's methods seem as outmoded as telex machines and brick-size mobile phones. "Search will ultimately be as good as having 1,000 human experts who know your tastes scanning billions of documents within a split second," says Gary Flake, one of just seven Distinguished Engineers at Microsoft, who are paid to think big thoughts. "It will model the human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Frontier of Search | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

...burbs is a hoary theme, and Weeds begins unfortunately, with the suburbia-spoof folk classic Little Boxes ("... and they all look just the same") playing over the credits. Showtime likes to hammer viewers with its high concepts--The L Word, Fat Actress--and the note tied to this particular brick is, "This comedy will satirize the suburbs." But Weeds proves far more complex about Nancy and her neighbors. She's a criminal and a fiercely caring mom, a hypocrite with true morals. Even her superficial neighbor Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), who nicknames her chubby daughter "Isabelly," proves to have a soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Addictive Laughter | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard chapel’s granite steps are being entirely removed and reinstalled this summer, correcting structural problems that had left the stairs lopsided and cracked. The brick substructure beneath the steps had weakened due to the freeze-and-thaw cycle of cold weather, according to Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College Mark D.W. Edington...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Sees Renovation Blitz | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...found in removing the treads that some of the brick piers were in such poor condition that the masons were able to take them apart by hand,” Edington wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Sees Renovation Blitz | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

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