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...Nobel Peace Prize Committee commended ElBaradei’s “efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest way possible.” ElBaradei, who is a native of Egypt, recently began his third term as director general of the IAEA. ElBaradei said last night that countries such as Libya, North Korea, and Iran, which are threatening to produce nuclear weapons, present significant difficulties for the IAEA. He also noted that it may be dangerous for nations to develop nuclear capabilities...

Author: By Alec N Halby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ElBaradei Discusses Arms Control | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

DIED. ROBERT JOHNSTON, 77, archaeologist whose work in digitally restoring and decoding manuscripts that had faded or blackened over time resulted in new glimpses into such texts as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Papyrus documents, which chronicled daily life in ancient Egypt; in Brighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 7, 2005 | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

Actually, a clone or two might have brightened up Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Knopf; 322 pages). On the first page, a bully comes after the 7-year-old Jesus. "I felt the power go out of me as I shouted: 'You'll never get where you're going.'" The bully falls down dead. Later, Jesus resurrects the bully, having made his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Junior Jesus | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...book, which is pretty stately and keeps displays of divine superpowers to a minimum. Young Jesus is largely unaware of his origins, and much of the book is taken up with his daily life and that of his extended family as they make their way from Alexandria, in Egypt, to Nazareth, where they settle down and go into business. Rice does a thorough job of re-creating the domestic realities of 1st century Judaea: the babble of languages--Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin--the labor of carpentry; the regular visits to the synagogue (he's a very Jewish Jesus); and above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Junior Jesus | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...world with virtually no tradition of--or appreciation for--objective journalism. Under the editorship of Jihad al Khazen, the paper, based in London, has undertaken hard-hitting stories about the civil war in Algeria, corruption in Jordan, internecine butchery in Iraq and the sort of radical Islamic extremism in Egypt that produced Salameh and other followers of Sheik Rahman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO RETURN ADDRESS | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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