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EGYPT. Tired of Tut and Ramses II? Two new pharaonic sites have opened to the public for the first time in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile, across from the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt. The tomb of King Tuthmosis IV (reigned 1413-1405 B.C.), discovered in 1903, is one of the largest of the 18th dynasty. The tomb of Prince Ramses Montu-Hir Khobsh-Ef (1137-1117 B.C.), the son of King Ramses IX, was unearthed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveler's Advisory- | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...wear three in my right ear. The three is symbolic of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, the three wise men, the three Hebrew boys--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego--the three parts of the day, morning, noon, and night, the three days Jesus was in the tomb, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the three graces, Faith, Hope, and Love, the three motions, slow motion, moderate motion and fast motion, water comes in three forms, you let it stay like it is, it's a liquid, if you slow the molecules down, it becomes ice. Speed the molecules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The story behind the chains, the mohawk, the earrings | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

Executive Harvey Weinstein endured 13 days in a muddy tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...floodwaters reached record heights and just kept climbing. In the South and the East -- where the temperature hit triple digits in many cities -- weather reporters were reduced to frying eggs on sidewalks and reprinting lame jokes ("How hot was it?" asked the New York Post. "So hot, Grant's Tomb had the front door open"). Even the breaks in the weather were bad. It snowed (in July!) in Colorado, but the white stuff melted too fast in most places to do skiers much good. In South Carolina, which had been spared the Midwest's drenching downpours, the total rainfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Season in Hell | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Mother and Father can take down the pictures and store the rocking horse in the attic, pluck the magnetic alphabet off the refrigerator door. Maybe they can find some other use for the room with the yellow wallpaper. Or they could close it up and seal it like a tomb so they can go about their grieving for the merry little girl they love and are about to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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