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...visited and took the picture in 2007, work crews had leveled the other buildings and scraped out the earth to extract lignite (brown coal), used to fuel a nearby power station. The crews were too superstitious to destroy a holy place, a guide told Franklin. Far above the new ground level, the edifice is now inaccessible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Changing Places | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...months later, the trio has its hands full getting their idea off the ground. After a successful spring trial run, the students parted ways at the end of last year. As they sit down for the interview—the first time they’ve met in person since May—the designers are ready to build on the groundwork they laid over the summer and expand beyond the Ivory Tower with the launch of their Web site and upcoming collection...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Couture | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...master's bidding, the party was molded as a personal political vehicle by Ariel Sharon. But when, in January 2006, Sharon lapsed into a coma from which he has not recovered, the party lost its identity. Sharon's deputy and successor, Olmert, drove the party into the ground with scandals and a disastrous military campaign in Lebanon in 2006. It remains to be seen whether Kadima's next leader, be it Livni or Mofaz, can keep the vision of a centrist party of pragmatic peace alive in a country so polarized between right and left, secular and religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Follow Olmert as Israeli Prime Minister? | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...compromise on the sharing of energy-export revenues between the central government and the regions may be in the works, the wounds opened by the latest upsurge in violence will not easily be healed. On the question of the autonomy demanded by the regions, thus far no middle ground appears to have opened up. And neither side appears willing to back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brewing Civil War in Bolivia? | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...brazen, sophisticated attack sparked fears in counterterrorism circles that al-Qaeda is gaining ground in Yemen, a key front in the Bush Administration's war on terror. A major purpose of the attack may have been to undermine Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salih. Yemeni officials believe it may have come in retaliation for recent raids by Yemeni security forces against al-Qaeda in which senior militant Hamza al-Quaiti was killed. Militants had also threatened more attacks if Yemeni authorities fail to free detainees. Says Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee: "Al-Qaeda and the security forces are in a serious confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Yemen, a Massacre of Americans Is Averted | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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