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...Some Other Ideas A number of our readers had their own thoughts about whom they would have selected as TIME's Person of the Year. From Barcelona came this suggestion: "A better choice would have been a collage or mosaic showing the faces of the brave soldiers and innocent victims who have perished in the Iraqi conflict." A reader from the United Arab Emirates complained, "It bothers me that almost every U.S. President is named at least once as the Person of the Year. HOW ABOUT BEING MORE CREATIVE IN YOUR SELECTION?" And a Pennsylvanian asked, "How could you miss...
...Tyrrhenian Sea (opens in March; tel: [39-089] 818181; www.palazzosasso.com). The famously opulent Grand Wailea in Hawaii features pools and waterslides for swimmers of all ages and the world's only water elevator. But the Wailea's crown jewel is the 450-sq-m Hibiscus Pool with a flower mosaic of 630,000 Mexican glass tiles (tel: [1-800] 888-6100; www.grandwailea.com). Exotic pools are not just the domain of warmer climes: 40 minutes outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, is the year-round, 39°C heat at the Blue Lagoon. Pumped from a geothermal source, it comes complete with silica...
...emanating from Sheba and Midian, both on that peninsula. Their interest in stars suggests Babylon, famous for its astrologers. The happiest guess of all turned out to be the one made in the 4th century by the decorators of the Church of the Nativity in Palestine, whose golden entry mosaic featured the Magi dressed as Persians, also renowned stargazers. When actual Persians came marauding in 614, it was the only place of worship they didn't torch...
...promoters are every day people, and the profit comes not in green bills but in a sense of affecting another person’s life with the importance of your personal knowledge. The YellowArrow art form harnesses the power of commercialism and modern technology to create a global mosaic of anonymously volunteered place-specific information united through ordinary cell phones and the internet...
...Mosul's cosmopolitan character is also under attack. "The mosaic of Mosul is a miniature Iraq: Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans, Assyrian Christians, Nestorian Christians, Muslim Sunnis, Muslim Shi?ites, Yezidis and Armenians," says Sadi Ahmed Pire, the Mosul chief of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of Kurdish Iraq's two governing parties. By attacking this mosaic, he says, "the Syrians and the resistance are trying to create anarchy." Minority groups viewed as sympathetic to the Americans are particularly vulnerable. A Christian church was bombed in early August, and Christians have been among those murdered. Pire says he has survived several...