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...greatest enemies, Hamas and Hizballah of Lebanon, rippled in the spring breeze. Overnight, Israeli police arrested Abu Dhaim's male relatives, a few neighbors and his fiancee. But visitors to Jebel Mukabir said there was no denying the pride that some Palestinians felt at Abu Dhaim's bloody handiwork. In Gaza, news of the seminary killings was greeted with celebratory gunfire and candy was passed out on the streets...
...decades, traffic engineer Hans Monderman had a hair-raising way of showing off his handiwork to anyone who took the trouble to visit his native northern Dutch province of Friesland. He would walk backward, arms folded, into the flow of traffic, and without horn-honking or expletives, drivers would slow or stop to let him safely cross to the other side. Monderman's stunt was an act of faith in the concept of "shared space," a radical street-design principle he quietly pioneered in more than 120 projects across Friesland. By the time he died of cancer last month, Monderman...
...team that produced this package includes writers, reporters and editors Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Kate Stinchfield, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Belinda Luscombe, John Cloud and Richard Corliss. The look of the package is the handiwork of associate art director Chrissy Dunleavy and photo editor Crary Pullen. Authors Carl Zimmer, Lori Oliwenstein and Steven Pinker also contributed stories...
...TIME's cover story] has had the same effect as Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1938 ... The French were persuaded to believe in an American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three people: the clever journalist who wrote the article, the shrewd editor who put it on the cover, and the graphic artist who brilliantly associated the widely lamented death of Marcel Marceau with, if I may draw on modern French thought, the empty signifier "French culture." John Brenkman, PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE...
...were too heavy, our ambitions too great for our capabilities.And yet with steady faith and a steady supply of nourishing sugar, we persevered through thick and thin layers of icing, only eating it when we needed the strength to continue. As we put the crowning touches on our delicate handiwork, we were aware of the grandeur of what we had accomplished. Already the gummy bear gypsies began to congregate at the front steps. Neither war nor revolution, neither tableshaking nor hungry bystanders could destroy what we had created that day.Finally, we stood before the last judgment, a trial we were...