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...near the airport where a suicide bomber killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983. Children of Hizballah martyrs make up a quarter of the 1,000 students there, who are drilled in daily English classes. Another symbol of the new Hizballah is its al-Manara (Lighthouse) TV, which broadcasts news, soap operas, kiddie programs and with-the-guerrillas footage of attacks on Israeli fortifications in southern Lebanon. The station--managed by close-shorn Islamic revolutionaries--recently climbed to No. 3 in overall viewership in Lebanon, a sign that the group is as intent on fighting a ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Man's Land | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Industry in Cambridgeport began when the Grand Junction Railroad was built in 1853. Factories produced soap, railroad cars and candy, among other products...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Industrial History, Popular Schools Forge the Modern-Day Patchwork of Cambridgeport | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...been a crossing guard for 11 years and has lived in Cambridgeport all her life. Part of her time in the neighborhood she spent in an area that used to be called "greasy village" after the soap factories that operated there...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Industrial History, Popular Schools Forge the Modern-Day Patchwork of Cambridgeport | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...pretty soggy. Coke, which created more shareholder value in the past decade than most other companies, has so far spent this year giving it back, one reason CEO Douglas Ivester was booted recently. Last fall P&G's archrival Unilever, whose massive arsenal includes Lipton iced tea, Dove soap and Wisk detergent, decided to jettison 1,000 subpar brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Brand City | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...that's how SoapWorks, a $2 million company that produces nontoxic, soap-based cleaning products, was born. Today, four years after starting the company in her garage, Antonetti employs 52 people, most of whom are themselves moms of children with severe allergies or other ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mothers of Invention | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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