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...thought it was going to close, it was about 9:00, 9:03, whenever it was that the second plane crashed into the building. The walls of the elevator caved in; they fell on a couple people." Otten and others groped through the dust to find a stairway, but the doors were locked. Finally they found a clearer passage, found a stairway they could get into and fled down to the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Want To Humble An Empire | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...thought it was going to close, it was about 9:00, 9:03, whenever it was that the second plane crashed into the building. The walls of the elevator caved in; they fell on a couple people." Otten and others groped through the dust to find a stairway, but the doors were locked. Finally they found a clearer passage, found a stairway they could get into and fled down to the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Day of the Attack | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

...Nervously, the teens ease down a narrow stairway into a dark, dank room where an old man in a tank top sits surrounded by garbage bags full of dried 'shrooms, which he doles out in tiny, $4.80 bags. The teenagers say they'll buy 15, hoping to save some for friends back home. They re-emerge on the street, with their stash in a paper bag. Later they'll eat the mushrooms, maybe mixing them with bananas or yogurt to cut the bitter taste. "I'll try anything I don't have to shoot up," says Doi, 18. "I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Instead, I was relegated to the back entrance and hustled up a confusing rear stairway. At the top, I found a locked door with a sign that said, “Ring for service.” I rang. A secretary opened the door a minute later and shuffled me into a nearby back office...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Considering Rhinoplasty? | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

...violate the Jewish prohibition of graven images. Herod appears to have allowed the money changers onto the Temple platform, which may have spurred Jesus' scourging of them in "my father's house." Joshua Schwartz, a professor of historical geography at Israel's Bar Ilan University, styles the stairway as a Judean version of London's Hyde Park Corner. There would be "beggars and upper-class Jews and Gentiles from all over," he says. "Scholars would be teaching, and would-be prophets would be preaching. The steps were the experience in Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem At The Time Of Jesus | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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