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Lost Luggage. Should your checked bags get lost in transit, here's some good news: The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered airlines to raise the minimum amount they must compensate passengers for lost suitcases, from $3,000 for each bag to $3,300. The rule takes effect in time for the December holidays...
Policewomen, clad in black chadors, with guns slung over their shoulders: the cover of Transit Tehran - an anthology of writing, art and photography - bears exactly the sort of bristly image you would expect to see of the Iranian capital...
...Inside, however, lies the unexpected: page after page of fascinating elucidation of a nation and people that desperately require understanding. Iran is a young country. Some 75% of Iranians are under 35, and it is this demographic that is responsible for the wit and poignancy that make Transit Tehran so absorbing. It has come at a cost: some contributors were jailed during the volume's preparation, hounded by a state that brooks no threat to its cultural authority...
...long, perceptions of Iran have been dominated by its nuclear saber-rattling and Islamist bluster. Transit Tehran shows us that young Iranians are willing to stick their necks out in the hope that we will look beyond those stereotypes...
...first “metropolitan” candidate in a nation still obsessed with its agrarian heritage. “Would a big-city president address as never before,” McGinnis asked, “the problems of our urban cores—blighted housing, shoddy public transit, dismal schools...