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...Noted "You are a rotten seed like the son of Noah ... And the flood will engulf you like it engulfed him." You are a rotten seed like the son of Noah ... And the flood will engulf you like it engulfed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Located near the Afghan border at the center of the chaos that threatens to engulf the region, Quetta is a rough-and-tumble town flooded with refugees, drugs, guns, Islamic militancy and, most of all, fear. Alexandra Boulat's striking photo essay captures the mood. time.com/pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME.com This Week: OCT. 8-OCT. 14 | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...neighborhood before it begins its final death throes. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, the fiery orb will collapse upon itself like a giant souffle, only to see its internal furnace briefly restoked in several last gasps. These will swell the sun's outer layers so they engulf all the inner planets, including Earth, turning it into what astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson calls "a red-hot charred ember." The sun's red-giant phase will be brief, however. Shedding its heat and gases, it will become a cold, compact cadaver no bigger than Earth, a white dwarf lost in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Will We Be Around? | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...democracy is not characterized by its forward-thinking policy, its welfare rights or its ability to speak for the people. Popular government is marked by struggle, bureaucracy, checks-and-balances and endless debate, all of which threaten to engulf the isolated fictions of real community progress...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Uncommon (Vote) Casting | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...guitar to earn enough for the next bottle. Finally, he dried out and began writing and singing songs, including his 1987 hit, Took the Children Away, which launched him on an upward musical career. But, he says, "I still feel the pain, every day. Sometimes it threatens to engulf me. But I'm not going to let it destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stolen Generation | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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