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Abraham's life becomes very eventful. He travels to Egypt and back and alights inCanaanite towns that may correspond topresent-day Nablus, Hebron and Jerusalem. He grows rich, distinguishing himself sometimes as a warrior king and sometimes as an arch-diplomat. At one point, three strangers appear at his tent. A model of Middle Eastern hospitality, he lays out a feast. They turn out to be divine messengers bearing word that God intends to destroy Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. Abraham initiates an extraordinary haggling session, persuading the Lord to spare Sodom if 10 righteous people can be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial splendor at Face, located on the verdant grounds of the Ruijin Guesthouse. Face combines two restaurants and a sumptuous bar in an ornate mansion built in 1936. The two eateries offer northern Thai and Indian food, the latter in a romantic tent complete with wooden pillars and fountains. Never mind that you're in China and not eating, you know, Chinese food: Shanghai prides itself on offering up the best of whatever global nosh you're craving. After all, this is the city where the favorite soup is not wonton but borscht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting on the Glitz | 9/29/2002 | See Source »

...chaplain said he had volunteered at the Salvation Army tent at the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, the site where debris from the World Trade Center was transferred and sifted through in the search for the bodies of those lost on Sept. 11. He also spent time in the tent at Ground Zero last March, praying with relief workers...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Somber Eve, Business as Usual in New York City | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...sinewy man with a shaved head and a black LIVE TO DRIVE biker shirt guides his 18-wheeler across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit. He pulls into the U.S. customs yard, braking next to a National Guard tent festooned with last year's Christmas lights. It's July 1, one of the hottest days of the year, and the stagnant air at the foot of the bridge--the busiest commercial border crossing in North America--is thick with the smell of diesel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inspector: Manning The Bridge | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...that did not make her journey from the Crimson Key tent in Harvard Yard, where she picked up her key, to her new home in Canaday C-5 any less foreign...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years, Parents Descend on Yard | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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