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...night of my birthday party I noticed the neighbors across the street weaving colored lights into the trees of their huge yard frontyard, unfurling a Koranic banner from their second-story balcony, and arranging dozens of chairs around their veranda. Within an hour their guests had taken up all the parking spaces in a three block radius, and a speaker attached to an immense sound system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...today Laura, 35, and her husband Jeff, 36, use her family's stilt house as a weekend retreat, an octopus' garden where their children can angle for bonefish from the balcony and squeal at dolphins that come by like neighborhood gossips. "Some of us," says Laura, "still want a frontyard-backyard relationship with blue water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Cities Built on the Sea | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

June. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., F. M. Griswold stepped out into his frontyard, just missed falling into a ditch from which thieves had, overnight, uprooted his seven-year-old hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Random Harvest. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., F. M. Griswold stepped out into his frontyard, just missed falling into a ditch from which thieves had, overnight, uprooted his seven-year-old hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...only that millions of square miles and scores of islands have passed from enemy control to Allied control. It is not only that the battle line has been advanced from the backyard of Honolulu to the frontyard of Tokyo. Even familiar places and bases have changed to an extent that leaves the returning correspondent openmouthed with unbelief. Not only have they grown; their function has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PACIFIC REVISITED | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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