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For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pripyat, near Chernobyl, after the disaster | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

The American Airlines 727 that lands each morning at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados carries not only vacationers but also an impressive load of paperwork. In order to cut costs on the processing of passenger ticket-coupons collected at its boarding gates, American flies daily an average of 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAVE DATA, WILL TRAVEL | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Stunned, I wanted to study the data. (At the close of the meeting, FAA officials collected all of the documents they'd shown us at the session.) Where had the figures come from, how had they been interpreted and substantiated, and what were the airlines planning to do about it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

From the Maison's convenient position on a quiet residential street three blocks from Jumeira Beach, you can stroll down to the sand at sunset and dive into the cool Gulf waters, evoking the Dubai of a generation ago when it was a fishing backwater, not the rich beneficiary of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Great Escape | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Since then, flag imagery has been intricately tied to moments of crisis or conflict. Over the past four decades, Kit Hinrichs, one of the nation's top graphic designers, has collected more than 5,000 pieces of stars and stripes-related memorabilia. He says the flag lapel pins in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Flag Lapel Pin | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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