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...home from Iraq now, and her posts include bubbly accounts of horsing around with her little brother and sparkling close-ups of her new engagement ring. But even when her transport truck was blown up by a roadside bomb in December, Sergeant Lizzie--who declines to share her full name--wrote about the event with the same bouncy style, flip asides, exclamation points and smiley faces. Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Riveting Soldier Blogs | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...will pay for the next batch. She estimates that she has already spent at least $2,000, more than six times her monthly salary as a midwife. The financial burden?which she has covered in part by selling all of her gold jewelry, aside from her wedding ring?will only increase as the poll nears. The election commission grants each candidate airtime at local radio stations?a female candidate's best bet for getting her name out?but production of a good campaign commercial is costly. Still, Mohammadi and her husband believe the sacrifice is worth it. "This jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Place | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...Distance Saturn's innermost ring has moved since 1981, according to new images from the Cassini probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...think for a second we don't know about New Orleans. We have all listened to WWL radio. We have a saying here: "We may be in Purgatory on the Gulf Coast, but those poor souls in New Orleans are in the inner ring of Hell." I can't fully convey how poorly the officials both here and there failed in getting the word out to people who did not know how to handle themselves in a Category 4/5. I've lived here long enough and interviewed enough Hurricane Camille victims that when I battened down the hatches I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Katrina | 9/10/2005 | See Source »

...After more than an hour of balancing at the front of the canoe to hack and kick at the door, Will finally got it open. He retrieved the two cats and the owner's wedding ring, then grabbed some clean clothes and got back into the canoe. Nearly four hours after we met at the water's edge, we were ready to paddle back to our cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Street By Canoe | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

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