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...Their first mission will be to take care of themselves. Whether they go in with 800 or 1500 troops, their first goal will be to establish perimeter security. I went into Kosovo with the Marines and it was interesting to see how they use their vehicles to form an outer perimeter within which they would live. Here they'll be living in some existing infrastructure at the airfield where they're landing rather than living out of their trucks. It's good that they're at an airfield, because that means high visibility over a greater distance. The geography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Marines' Mission is Bin Laden, not Kandahar' | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...Paradigm, police were marginal blue blurs from the outer boroughs, and fire fighters merely the hired help. In the New Paradigm, they are Heroes Who Rushed into the Burning Buildings When Everyone Else Was Running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Paradigm Shifted? | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...enormous: nine stories tall and 10 million cu. ft. in volume, with a 100-ft. atrium at its center. Perhaps the most direct way to clean the place is with Sandia foam, a shaving cream-like decontaminant that works by oxidizing and destroying the anthrax spore's outer shell. But it's not clear how you would apply the killer suds to a structure as complex as the Hart, or how you would do it without gunking up computers and other equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrubbing Out The Spores | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat, drawing it away from the inner core. Eggplants stay fresh for 27 days, instead of the usual three. Tomatoes and peppers last for up to three weeks. A recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, Abba, 37, who hails from a family of potmakers, is using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...whose intimacy with his neighbors is limited by his multiethnic past. The red thread of the narrative—which varies subtly in style and voice, as well as location—is Willie’s inner self, the half a life that remains constant inside, while the outer layer varies to suit its setting and audience...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Prize Winner's Newest: 'Half A Life' | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

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