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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because so many of the war's victims are from the lower class, the impoverished southern section of Tehran has been particularly hard hit. Posters bearing photographs of the dead are prominently displayed outside many homes. Black cloths hang near the entrances to homes, and small shrines that are covered with mirrors are set beside the doors. "If you drive around the city after a large military operation, you see many of these shrines," says a Tehran resident. "They are all over the southern section. Posters of the dead form a sort of collage dedicated to martyrdom. Every so often...
...three staged a symposium on triremes that attracted scholars from Greece and eventually led to the construction of a small section of the warship, which was successfully tested on the Thames. Intrigued by the undertaking, Greek officials offered to build an entire trireme. The actual building process, which took two years and about $700,000, hewed closely to original techniques, using Oregon pine (Mediterranean pines no longer grow tall and straight enough), 22,000 oak dowels and 17,000 handmade nails. A major deviation: the builders substituted steel rope for the hypozomata, the two lengths of twisted flax rope that...
...news organization, and a rare glimpse of how TIME is put together. "It's fun knowing what will get into the magazine before anyone else does," says Intern Ruth Masters, 20, a European-history major at the University of Pennsylvania, who is researching and writing in the Economy & Business section...
Interns are chosen by TIME editors from among hundreds of applicants put forward by colleges. Their credentials are impressive. Intern Stephanie Thomas, 21, of Barnard College, has visited Turkey nine times. She wound up writing in the World section. Marta Lavandier, 23, studies photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She became a picture researcher. Lisa Kazmier, 21, of Northwestern University, has worked for two daily newspapers. Her task: writing in the Milestones section...
...Further, artists do not die only of AIDS, and the disease does not kill only artists. Says Hoffman: "I was going through my address book the other day to see who was gone. Among the 16, there was a plumber, a computer genius, a cop. AIDS attacks a cross section of humanity. But artists get the notoriety, and that gives people a false sense of security. I think that's dangerous...