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...conflict in Afghanistan put Americans in sometimes perplexingly unfamiliar territory. But TIME's vivid series of maps and graphics has given readers clear and detailed guides to all the action, whether in the caves of Tora Bora or in the arcane financial networks of al-Qaeda. You can find all those maps and graphics, with added interactive elements, at time.com/interactives
Starting with the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, contemporary feminism--women's lib--had been a newly surging social current in America. Riding its crest were such vivid provocateurs as Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug. But by 1975, TIME argued, feminism had "transcended the feminist movement" and penetrated every layer of society. The idea of equal social and professional rights for women, "once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women," had "taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white 'ethnics.'" The drama of the sexes remained, TIME cautioned...
...Muslim introspection must confront the failures of Islamic societies, political and economic and moral, and the evil, fascistic dreams that these societies sometimes export with vivid results...
...most vivid memory of a year chained to the What?—well, besides the time I wrote an article about Christian Scientists in which I brilliantly referred to them as “Scientologists”—is the miserable working conditions...
...Muslim introspection must confront the failures of Islamic societies, political and economic and moral, and the evil, fascistic dreams that these societies sometimes export with vivid results...