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TIME photographer John Stanmeyer's experience as a fashion photographer served him well in his work on the cover story about Afghan women. His images of a Taliban-free Kabul show women shopping for burkas, as well as feminists who have tossed their burkas aside. His photo essay on TIME.com is a striking look at the changing circumstances of women in Afghanistan. Go to time.com/stanmeyer...
Last week journalists from the Times of London and the BBC breathlessly reported discovering documents about making nuclear weapons at an abandoned "al-Qaeda safe house" in Kabul. But it's likely that the journalists--as well as the al-Qaeda members--were fooled by a satirical 1979 article that the would-be terrorists found on the Web. A sharp-eyed editor at a site called the Daily Rotten noticed similarities between a facetious article titled "Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device!" which appeared in a now defunct humor publication called Journal of Irreproducible Results, and the language...
Send Mickey to Kabul...
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...streets of Kabul, you can see something these days that has not been glimpsed there for almost five years?women's faces. Now that the Taliban has fled the city, a few brave women have shed the burka?the head-to-toe garment, to Western eyes a kind of body bag for the living, made mandatory by the defeated religious leadership. Men sometimes look in astonishment at these faces, as if they were comets or solar eclipses. So do other women. From the moment in 1996 that the Taliban took power, it sought to make women not just obedient...