Word: falling
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...identified only as a distant associate of el Hage's. He was later accused of being a key planner of the embassy bombings the next year. El Hage moved with his family to Texas, where he lived and worked as a tire repairman until he was charged this fall with conspiracy in the Africa bombings...
With few clues to guide modern scientists, the origin and fate of the ancient rulers of Teotihuacan are a mystery to this day. But thanks to a discovery made this fall by an international research team, that mystery may finally be starting to unravel. In mid-October, archaeologists stumbled across a burial chamber deep inside Teotihuacan's massive Pyramid of the Moon. Inside they found a skeleton and more than 150 artifacts probably dating to about A.D. 150. It is, exults anthropologist Michael Spence of the University of Western Ontario, "a fantastic find...
...prefers "like a misrouted Internet packet.") "I like starting with a set of initial conditions and just extrapolating," he says. In this case, the initial conditions came courtesy of Mother Russia, whose meltdown Sterling covered for Wired back in 1993. "I was watching a huge 20th century superpower fall apart at the seams," he says. Extrapolating from Moscow to the U.S. was a simple matter of wondering, like any good science-fiction writer, What...
...slumber comes two years after Ted Turner hectored his fellow billionaires to stop hoarding their market-inflated wealth. Last fall Turner (who is vice chairman of Time Warner, TIME's parent company) pledged $1 billion of his now $6 billion fortune to the United Nations in the form of an annual pledge of $100 million in Time Warner stock. He may have started something. The world's richest man, Bill Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children...
...year, and so different. This one, the first film directed by Terrence Malick since the 1978 Days of Heaven, imagines the Guadalcanal battle as a standoff between man at his most frantic and nature at its most rapturous. In one embracing vision, Malick gives you Eden and the Fall. Welcome back, Terry...