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When Slavic ambassadors visited Constantinople (formerly Byzantium) in the 10th century, they were so awed by the city that they later wrote that they "knew not whether we were in Heaven or Earth." During their stay, these visitors would have seen mechanical golden songbirds on the boughs of jeweled trees and a hydraulic throne that lifted the Emperor 30 ft. above his subjects. Today, the relics of the Byzantine Empire - which for more than 1,000 years stretched from its capital (now called Istanbul) into the eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East and beyond - continue to dazzle. Running through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Exhibition Uncovers the Secrets of Byzantium | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...your honey all over my tummy,” she sings. Apparently, she is not afraid to show us her dirty kind of loving. Williams also gives us some straight-up blues songs like “Tears of Joy” and “Heaven Blues,” as well as some down-home country with “Well Well Well.” This track displays Williams’s husky voice in all its glory, with Charles Louvin on back-up vocals. In between the two genres stands “Jailhouse Tears...

Author: By Olivia S. Pei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucinda Williams | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Faust] was being pushed by budget implications, that we might not make it, that we might fail,” but still adopted the task force’s recommendations, Clark said. “This commitment puts us out on a limb and Heaven knows the world will be watching...

Author: By Cora K. Currier and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Back at Harvard, Gore Envisions Green Future | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...film is full of sweet, subtle touches. In the book Lily daydreams of meeting her mother Deborah in heaven; and after 10,000 years telling Lily she was not to blame for her death, Deborah would spend the next 10,000 fixing the girl's ratty hair. ("She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it.") The movie doesn't make a big declamatory deal of this, but after a few days with the Boatwrights, Lily looks magically presentable, pretty - because for once she's been cared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Bees: A Honey of a Film | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...there only one heaven on earth? As the holiday-home market has taken off in Asia, Phuket and Bali have nurtured a healthy rivalry with each other, trading off the honor of being listed as Asia's best island in travel magazines. Phuket aficionados talk loftily of the Thai island's superior beaches and cheap but professional hospitals, while Bali fans boast of the island's volcanoes and great surfing spots. Nevertheless, the business of vacation villas isn't a zero-sum game, largely because the members of the international jet set who dig Phuket are a breed apart from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Islands | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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