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...Wahhabists broad power to dispense their forbidding brand of Islam in the country's mosques and schools and to regulate daily life in the kingdom. During the five daily prayer times, official morality squads roam streets and shopping malls, ordering businesses to close and bystanders to head to the nearest mosque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Still Need the Saudis? | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Wahhabists broad power to dispense their forbidding brand of Islam in the country's mosques and schools and to regulate daily life in the kingdom. During the five daily prayer times, official morality squads roam streets and shopping malls, ordering businesses to close and bystanders to head to the nearest mosque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Still Need the Saudis? | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

...urban realist," but doesn't know what he'd call himself: "In a way I'd rather just get on with it and call it something afterwards." In Westway he depicts a scene under a motorway, the curve of the road cutting off a generic blue sky. On the nearest strut is a thick accretion of graffiti, and greenery struggles for life. The harsh contrast of light and dark is reminiscent of art of the 1940s, but Free explains this is the light of early morning, when he often takes photographs. Free, 30, has "become obsessed" with documenting London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Legends | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...looming, and America stands at the highest alert. Seeking to batten down the country's domestic defenses, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) begins fingerprinting visitors and recording their race, weight and hair color. Those already living in the U.S. are ordered to report to the nearest post office to be printed and interviewed. The month is July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flap About Fingerprints | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...running 24 hours a day, and once I submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Steps for E-Mail Addicts | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

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