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...only taken three or four spoonfuls of my meal when I heard gunfire," says Khan, lying in a hospital bed. "We all quickly fell to the ground. The firing intensified. I moved quickly inside, into the glass room on one side of the roof, thinking it would be safer. But when the explosion happened, bits of glass came flying from everywhere." Khan's head is thickly wrapped in bandages, as are two fingers on his left hand. He lifts his shirt to reveal scars on his back. But the hotel staff cooking for the rooftop diners and entertaining them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar: More and More, A City Under Siege | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...truck laden with 500kg explosives attacked Peshawar's landmark Pearl Continental Hotel on the night of June 9, killing at least 9 people and injuring dozens, he only suffered injuries from flying shards of glass. If Khan had been sitting just 20 feet closer to the edge of the roof, where he and others were dining when the attack took place, he may not have survived. (See pictures of the hotel blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar: More and More, A City Under Siege | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...merger will combine Ticketmaster's ticketing and artist-management business with Live Nation's concert promotion, network of concert halls and fan-club operations under one roof. As a combined company, the new entity is expected to enjoy about $40 million in annual cost savings and have greater bargaining power to woo artists and sell out concert halls more efficiently. "Forty percent of the tickets to music events go unsold," said Azoff, whose Front Line artist-management group within Ticketmaster represents such artists as the Eagles and Guns N' Roses. "The goal of this [combined] company is to better market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticketmaster, Live Nation: Obama's Antitrust Test | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

...Beck Center's president. In April she traveled to Washington to meet with Kaiser. She went home and instituted some, if not all, of his gospel. Marketing will be maintained. But the theater will mount fewer shows next year, and some will be chestnuts like Fiddler on the Roof and Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Crunch: The Recession and the Arts | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...horrendous, absolutely gruesome, terrible," passenger Jim Ford told Australian radio. "The worst experience of my life." Passenger Nigel Court said he was terrified to watch people not wearing seat belts - including his wife - fly upward. "She crashed headfirst into the roof above us," he told a reporter. "People were screaming," said Henry Bishop of Oxford, England. A Sri Lankan couple said they were thrown to the ceiling when their seat belts failed. "We saw our own deaths," said Sam Samaratunga, who was traveling with his wife Rani to their son's wedding. "We decided to die together and embraced each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447 | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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