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...Mahmad makes his own rounds of the perimeter twice nightly. No one sleeps much: there are challenges shouted into the darkness, bursts of fire, the coming and going of guards. At 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. unseen American planes blitz the area near the pass with what look like cluster bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down, Dirty and Aching for a Fight | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...there is a dominant motif in European coverage, it appears to be the looming humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan. London's Times gave prominence to a call by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund for the U.S. and Britain to stop using cluster bombs in Afghanistan, because of the "serious long-term threat to civilians." The bombs, being used against Taliban defensive lines, scatter 200 smaller "bomblets" designed to maximize their kill-ratio. But the bombs sometimes go astray, and also leave dangerous unexploded bomblets that kill civilians days or years later. Diana spent the last years of her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Wide Web Review: What They're Saying About the War | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...During production months Miyazaki occupies a corner desk at Studio Ghibli, a vine-covered cluster of buildings he designed in a Tokyo suburb for himself and a full-time staff of 150. The light-filled floors buzz quietly with jeans-clad artists in their 20s, hunched over tilted wooden desks. They far outnumber the computer-graphics specialists on a lower floor, employed only to speed up the production process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magic of Make Believe | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

This winter, with the help of a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Newman plans to create an interdisciplinary cluster of social scientists dedicated to the study of recent trends in immigration in the U.S. and other countries...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Revamps Bunting | 10/16/2001 | See Source »

...Scholars from Harvard and other universities will form the backbone of the cluster,” she says...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Revamps Bunting | 10/16/2001 | See Source »

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