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...city officials in Atlanta, it was a case of grand larceny. Right there in the downtown Holiday Inn, in daylight, recruiters from the city of Houston were trying to steal members of Atlanta's police department. Their inducement was a higher salary ($14,475) than Atlanta's first-year officers earn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Police Raid | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...girls exchange flowery, cherub-studded cards in the morning, vow undying love, and set out in their carriage. The mixture of the everyday and the bizarre, so essential to any good horror movie, is achieved perfectly, as the scariest sequences are shot in that stark, glaring Australian daylight. The complicity of the primal landscape with the repressed spirituality and sexuality of the girls always present but never overdone...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Down Under | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...basic spiritual duties of Islam are summed up in the so-called five pillars of faith. They are: 1) accepting the shahada; 2) the daily prayers to God while facing Mecca; 3) charitable giving; 4) fasting during the daylight hours of Ramadan, a 29-or 30-day month in Islam's lunar calendar;* and 5) making the hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca at least once in an individual's lifetime-if he or she is financially and physically able. Some Muslims argue that there is a sixth pillar of the faith, namely jihad. The word is frequently translated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: A Faith of Law and Submission | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...earlier, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art had experienced the first major theft in its 110-year history. A 2,500-year-old Greek marble head valued at $150,000 had been wrenched from its five-foot wooden base and smuggled out of the building in daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Artful Crime | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

This time of year, the peasants in Moras En Valloire are busy pruning the fruit trees. The Garcias are probably doing the same. If it is daylight now in France, the family is out in the fields, working hard, just as they did yesterday and just as they will do for all the tomorrows left in them. But while they work, the Garcias smile, laugh, and sing, defying their poverty and sharing with each other the joys of the simple life that is the lot of the peasant...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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