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...frigates, destroyers and fast patrol boats on the sea, according to Burwin. Some 60 ships have been escorted since the program began last month. Intelligence officials believe al-Qaeda is using the shipping business - with its lax regulations and virtually non-existent security - to transport men and materiél, and fears remain high of "the equivalent of a truck bomb at sea," a senior U.S. Navy official confirmed to Time. "Basically, look at a map, and anywhere you see the word strait is a point of concern." - By Jeff Israely Ansar Loses Twice ITALY Police arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Other War | 4/6/2003 | See Source »

Frank Lloyd Wright could be called the first New World architect. Unlike his distinguished American predecessors, he did not look toward classical or European models for inspiration. He advocated and used indigenous materi als designed to harmonize with natural settings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art and Its Rewards: Some Creators who Made News that Stayed News | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...from the table. And that is still pretty good advice." One waited for the suggestions to purchase a good heavy coat, drink a glass of warm milk before retiring and feed a colchand starve a fever. Ford came close. "Guard your health," he warned. "This will materi ally strengthen our attack on inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Button Up Your Overcoat | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

Both firms seem to have just that sort of thing in mind. Highly diversified Prentice-Hall publishes books, loose-leaf reporting services, newsletters and training materials, and a subsidiary of fers residence and correspondence courses in brokerage and investment. The company is also developing audio visual devices and programmed materi als for teaching. Says Chairman (and cofounder) Richard Prentice Ettinger: "We're going into an era of education involving more than books. We'll put our knowledge together and beat every body." Added Sarnoff: "I believe this will advance the art of communications as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: An Attraction of Opposites | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Rome's Camaldolese sisters make ends meet by cooking and scrubbing for a local pensione, and laundering altar linens for a nearby Benedictine seminary. Sister Naz arena shares in the convent work by sewing and cutting the palms ; her materi als are delivered to her cell by a nun who taps at her door, whispers "Deo gratias," waits long enough for Sister Naz arena to hide in a recess of her cell, then sets the cloth or fronds inside the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Nun's Story | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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