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...investors, the lawsuits represent a cloud hanging over the industry. Philip Morris shares closed the week at 74 5/8, down 21% from their March high. R.J. Reynolds was at 25½, off 27% from its April peak. Admits Reynolds Chairman J. Tylee Wilson: "I believe that the product-liability issue is probably depressing the price of our stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Takes A New Road | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Stava, a popular vacation town in Italy's rugged Dolomite mountains, tourists were returning to their hotels for lunch last Friday. Shortly afternoon, there was a rumbling in the ground, followed by a cloud of white dust that some mistook for smoke. "I thought it was an earthquake," said one survivor. "The mountainside exploded." Less than a mile north of the village, a pair of earthen dams had suddenly collapsed. An avalanche of water, mud and debris swept through Stava, scarring the mountainsides, destroying three hotels, burying homes and scattering bodies in its path. The deluge, some 100 ft. high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Mountainside Exploded | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Some along the mountainside survived as the water surged by just below them in the valley. Farmer Valentino Tretter saw the cloud of white dust raised by the torrent and climbed above the valley road to investigate. "Soon after, the mud came across my garden and my barn," he recalled, "I shouted toward the house of the Vinante family, which is a little underneath mine, but in a few moments it was wiped away. Adriano, his wife Pauola and their three children--all are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Mountainside Exploded | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...with one another, there are doubts and contradictions within each of them. Yet individual views are all that is left of this singular event, since the rubble of Hiroshima has long been bulldozed away, the dead cremated, the air blown clean. Today on streets over which the Bomb's cloud rose like a red-purple flower are coffeehouses where Mozart is played, gilded hotels with blazing chandeliers, COKE IS IT signs and the headquarters of the Mazda corporation. Everything faces forward, except that the name of the city can never be mentioned without invoking a past to which everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atomic Age | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Right Buttons, a painting of two buttons, the one on top labeled "Launch" and the one beneath it "Lunch." Alex Grey, in 1980, painted Nuclear Crucifixion, an oil on linen reminiscent of Matthias Grünewald's painting in the 16th century, except here Jesus is crucified in a mushroom cloud. Michael Smith and Alan Herman produced a mixed-media work in 1983 called Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, a survivalist food counter for the prudent nuclear family, equipped with provisions and three stools. In 1981 Robert Morris created a huge work for the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, titled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the People Saw: A Vision of Ourselves | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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