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...Roko Camaj owned the most enviable views in New York City. As a window cleaner for the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, his work space offered staggering panoramas of the city he adopted when he arrived from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...before I bring a gun to school, could you please tell me where I would keep it? On my person? In my desk drawer? Sure, it's scary sometimes to think about what could happen, but how much more scary actually to have a gun in the classroom. FLORA CAMAJ Gilbert, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Ages & ages ago, the Snow God "Kun" destroyed all life on earth, and only the ill-tempered "supaya" (devils) lived to roam the highlands of Bolivia. The" Pacha-Camaj" (Gods of Fertility) then sent down their own sons, the "Paka-Jakes" (Eagle Men), to create a new race of their beloved Aymara people, all of whom had been snowed under by Kun. The Paka-Jakes settled on the land around holy Lake Titicaca, recreated the Aymaras, and named the province Pacajes after themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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