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Then, however, he recalled the world's other great modern metropolis--murky, sullen, dun-colored London, which he had visited last year. It was a city that seemed to darken a little more every day from the soot belched by smokestacks and chimneys.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: A New World Ablaze | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

If little else, President Bush has learned one valuable thing about Latin America since his last visit to the region: how to duck the protests. In 2005, at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Heads South to Mend Fences | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

Boston has long been a metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Culture Clash | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

The hero was another strong man with a secret identity: in this case, Denny Colt, a detective who was believed killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

Murphy, a $9 billion exploration and refining company, has remained in El Dorado (pop. 22,000) even though the south Arkansas oil fields were largely pumped dry decades ago; the company's 2006 revenues of $14 billion and after-tax earnings of $600 million derive from its wells in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Pay for College with Oil Money | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

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