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...morning, as I prepared to leave Al-Qaeda, the female wedding guests showered me with hugs and kisses. "Don't forget me," a 5-year-old named Mona said. One of the groom's brothers offered another suggestion: "Be careful. There are bad people out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wedding in the Town of Al-Qaeda | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...food giant Kraft has reached an agreement to buy 186-year-old British confectioner Cadbury for $19.5 billion, ending months of resistance and rejected offers. But the takeover has left a bad taste for British citizens upset at the sale of a national icon--and for Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett, who criticized the purchase. If finalized, the deal will make Kraft the largest player in the global candy market, displacing Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

OUMEIMA NACERI, a 19-year-old Muslim, on a French proposal that would bar women from wearing full-body, face-covering robes in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife and children, including his precocious 12-year-old Eero, joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...chickens pecked at bodies stacked along the central path, left by families who couldn't afford a burial. Other remains were loaded by bulldozer into dump trucks and hauled away to mass burials in the cursed swamplands outside the city. Everywhere were funeral pyres, fueled by wood crates or old tires, set alight by people who had given up hope that the government would come to clear the corpses. Passersby, hit by the heat and stench, broke into a run; some images just burn too deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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