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...most who live in the Delta that some are prepared to risk their lives for a bucketful of fuel. Last week, more than 150 people died when an oil pipeline on the outskirts of Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, west of the Delta, exploded in a massive fireball. The inferno left dozens of bodies charred beyond recognition. Police say that the explosion was most likely caused by vandalism. The pipeline, which ran under a beach, had been uncovered. Small holes had been drilled in it through which thieves could tap off fuel. The leaking pipeline had attracted local villagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria's Deadly Days | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...official Opus publication, but is produced by Opus members. Coming after the outcry over a Danish newspaper's cartoons of Mohammed, there was an almost endearing cluelessness in the magazine's decision to portray the Muslim prophet in perdition. The cartoon borrowed an image from Dante's Inferno, in which Mohammed languishes in hell, sliced in two for the crime of "dividing" faith in God. Studi's editors then placed in the mouth of Dante's infernal tour guide, Virgil, the remark that a guy next to Mohammed "with his pants down" represented Italy's current policy toward Islam, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outcry Over Mohammed | 4/18/2006 | See Source »

What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come Sunday, you can tune in to hear Reverend Gomes preaching to the fold in Memorial Church; “Crimson Sportstalk” comes on a half-hour later...

Author: By Anna F. Bonnell-freidin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radio Free Harvard | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...will walk out of the theater and say to themselves, 'Life is short,'" Jimeno says, "and go home and hug their loved ones." Berloff has the same aim. "You don't want people leaving theaters slitting their wrists. I don't think the world is ready for the Towering Inferno version of 9/11. I don't know how you would make that movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Roll! Inside the Making of United 93 | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...freshmen receive a packet of paper that decides their housing fate. For everyone involved, housing assignments are slightly more stressful than getting your SAT scores and slightly less stressful than opening up the results to your post-spring break syphilis test. As we’ve been through this inferno before, the Bell Lap can be your latter-day Virgil and help you get a better sense of the corner of hell you’ll reside in for the next three years: Blocking Groups Unfortunately, you already picked your blocking groups and made terrible choices. Needless...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Your Next Three Years Will Suck | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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