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...democracy don't easily mix should be avoided. Indeed, even Iran's limited forms of democracy has provided a platform for its people to vote for reformist President Mohammed Khatami to express their desire for a society based on laws and for coexistence with the West. Hard-liners may cling to power despite their repudiation by the electorate, but the voters' impact is undeniable - Iran may have been a state sponsor of terrorism in the past, but it is currently weighing joining the anti-terrorism coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Democracy Be a Weapon Against Terrorism? | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...evil. The fact before our eyes is that a group of savage zealots took the sweet and various lives of those ordinarily traveling from place to place, ordinarily starting a day of work or--extraordinarily--coming to help and rescue others. Freedom? That real enough for you? Everything we cling to in our free and sauntering country was imperiled by the terrorists. Destruction was real; no hedging about that. Hans Christian Andersen wrote that famous fairy tale about The Most Incredible Thing, a beautiful, intricate clock that was smashed to bits by an ax, which act was then judged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Irony Comes To An End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...side of a dune one day's camel ride from Timia, a camel skeleton bakes in the searing sun. A few patches of heat-hardened skin cling to the chalky, white bone. The sun bleached vertebrae of the neck lie in a graceful curve where the animal fell; a couple of ribs have been pulled away by a scavenger. "I feel my life has been hard and I know Adam's will be hard too," says Adam's uncle Saghdou. His eyes hang low in his weathered face, dragged down by time. "The desert is our enemy. It's like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunset Looms for Africa's Salt Trekkers | 9/7/2001 | See Source »

...perfectly happy to accept the fact that Rome was not built in a day. So why, scientists wonder, do we cling so desperately to the idea that stem cell miracles are just around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Small, Small Step Toward Stem-Cell Nirvana | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...possible the Standard will return in some form. "We still need a weekly devoted to covering the information economy with open eyes," says chairman John Battelle. "That idea is still solid. I still believe." Battelle has one prospect to cling to. If his company files for Chapter 11 protection, the Standard, not IDG, will control the sale of its assets--including the name. That is small consolation in a world in which ad revenues keep sinking into the fissures of the biggest economic bust in a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall Of The Mighty Standard | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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