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...room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine in Paris.) In order for a film or TV series to truly achieve cult status, it has to be viewable by all members of the household. A great drama and entertainment for adults, Lost is also sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...many of the schools, the first thing we noticed was the constant din of children yelling, screaming, and generally being unruly. Adult supervision was scarce, and where there was an adult present, the adult was scurrying from one end of the classroom to the other, quieting the children here and breaking up fights there...

Author: By C. FRANK IGWE | Title: Broken Schools | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Din & Tonics—and their famed lime-green socks—will be taking Washington, D.C. by storm from Jan. 16-24. Dins President Ari C. Peña ’10 is looking forward to having “a week away just to get to know each other better, and have some man time,” he said...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jamming During J-Term | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...Farther west but still to the north of Revolution Street, Farmers' Boulevard was heavy with traffic and alive with the constant monotonous din of honking horns. The junction of Workers' Street was the scene of possibly the largest gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...world's great shopping districts. Its two main arteries, Regent and Oxford streets, and its capillary-like maze of side streets, are crammed with some of the biggest and trendiest names in retailing. But shopping in the West End can be downright exhausting: sidewalks heaving with humanity; the constant din of noise; traffic fumes; foul weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Shopping Stressful? Try Virtual Oxford Street | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

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