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DAVID VAN BIEMA is TIME's religion writer and has been exploring the religious aspect of this story, writing about everything from the spiritual beliefs of the terrorists to the reasons for increased church attendance in the U.S. Chat with him on Thursday, 8 p.m. E.T., Keyword: Live...
MICHAEL DUFFY is our Washington bureau chief, overseeing coverage from the nation's capital. Chat with him about how the attack on the Pentagon and the onset of a strange new war have turned Washington upside down, on Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.T., Keyword: Live...
...labrynthine depths of old Delhi, where the lanes are too narrow even for a rickshaw, men drink tea and chat in shabby offices. Nobody seems to be doing any work, until the phone rings. Then, numbers are furiously scribbled, followed by some busy dialing and whispered instruction. Although it's far from obvious in the innocuous setting, these men are moving money - to exporters, drug traffickers, tax evaders, corrupt politicians. And terrorists...
Surely enough, cultural critics have trumpeted the detrimental impact of the cell phone on society. Are we not disingenuous hedons, appropriating a gadget with the pretext of boosting efficiency, when in fact we use that technology for useless chit-chat? Even the most avid cell phone apologists concede that this is a rhetorical question. Of course cell phones are mostly frivolous and only occasionally useful. Ultimately, users argue, the cell phone is a benign force, and on the rare occasion that it seems absolutely necessary (“Where are you, I’m outside Mather?...
...decades art was made to shock. Now people are turning to art for its ability to soothe. Especially popular in e-mails and chat rooms in recent days is W.H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939" ("The unmentionable odour of death/Offends the September night"), written as World War II began. TIME asked artists and writers what they were turning...