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Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Spanish to Surreal | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

At the heart of Shi'a Islam is a 1,400-year-old passion play of political succession: the hero is Hussain, grandson of the Prophet; the villain is Yazid, the usurper of the Caliphate; and each year on the holy day of Ashura, their bloody conflict is re-enacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

I needed to solve the problem of any writer telling a story--how do you end it? You can do a gentle fadeaway: "He went to the window and looked out into the darkness. Snow was falling gently through the spruce trees." But that's not good for half the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Two days ago, returning home in darkness, she discovered a letter from the President. She and her husband had written twice to the White House, upset about the prospect of increased casualties.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother's Eyes | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

An international team of scientists has discovered more than 17,000 species living in the darkness some three miles beneath the surface of the world's oceans. The findings were inventoried as part of the upcoming global Census of Marine Life. Oceanographers say thousands more species are yet to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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