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...maybe not. For now, rumors of the casket's death are somewhat exaggerated. The normally stiff industry is offering consumers a wider range of options, from customized doodads to cheaper models to online window shopping. With families still paying $2,000 to $2,500 on average for a casket--a third of the average bill for the total funeral, which the National Funeral Directors Association says was $6,500 in 2004--there's still plenty of money in building boxes for burial...
Although a ride on the Highway of Death once exaggerated the dangers lurking in Baghdad, it now does the opposite, lulling newcomers into a false sense of security. Even as the airport route has got somewhat safer, huge portions of the Iraqi capital have become far more dangerous. I pass one of those on the drive into the city: Amariyah, the mainly Sunni suburb adjacent to Camp Victory and home to Mahmud, one of my Iraqi colleagues. (The names of most of TIME's Iraqi employees have been changed in this article for their protection; working for a foreign company...
TIME: THEY ALSO HAVE POLITICAL ARMS. I KNOW THIS IS SOMEWHAT APPLES AND ORANGES, BUT THE U.S. SPOKE TO SINN FEIN WHEN THE I.R.A. WAS BLOWING PLACES...
...diplomats are trying hard to make headway on a durable Israeli-Hizballah cease-fire. In the meantime, Israel and Hizballah are busy decoding each other's messages, which usually come in the form of a missile or air strike. Into the fourth week of fighting, the two combatants have, somewhat surprisingly, certain understandings. "They don't bomb Lebanon's power stations, and we don't bomb Haifa's petrochemical factories," a Hizballah official told TIME late last week. But the status quo could be shaken up if Israeli troops, above, continue to occupy southern Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force...
...lesbians, the story is somewhat different. "They still don't do as well as men, but lesbians tend to do better than women with male partners," says Gates. "They are less likely to have children and are in the labor force more consistently...