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...early evening in Tokyo was hot (83 F) and steamy, and one of the world's busiest air terminals, Haneda, was even more jammed and uncomfortable than usual. But most of the jostling travelers were in a festive, uncomplaining mood. The three-day observance of Bon, a holiday season nearly as joyous as New Year's, would begin the next morning. Many Japanese would devote the days to nostalgic visits to the places of their birth, to happy reunions with relatives, to paying homage to their ancestors. The more religious among them believed that the spirits of their forefathers would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...They are a tight group who has already been highly independent, covering for me when my son was born during FOP leader selection, one of the busiest times in the FOP calendar,” he wrote...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Longtime FOP Director Departs | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...They are a tight group who has already been highly independent, covering for me when my son was born during FOP leader selection, one of the busiest times in the FOP calendar,” he wrote...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Longtime FOP Director Departs | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...their attacks. Chief surgeon Jamil Bayati estimates that his tiny ER has taken in 10,000 people in the past 12 months and that more than 1,000 of them had "war wounds"--inflicted by insurgents, the U.S. military or Iraqi security forces. Bayati figures that "this is the busiest ER in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life Of a Baghdad ER | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...they may have been good at, successive generations of Hong Kong people have been terrific at filling in their harbor. The fashionistas' haunts in Causeway Bay, the new 88-story IFC II building (sixth tallest in the world) in Central, Suzie Wong's bars in Wanchai, the world's busiest container port, the runway at the old Kai Tak airport that used to have white-knuckled flyers fingering their rosaries?they were all built on reclaimed land. One hundred and sixty years of hauling landfill from mountainsides and construction dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Lose a Harbor | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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