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...headstones, although in truth, her husband was alive. He was living in West Berlin and Niebank had been separated from him for four months. Now she was looking for a concealed tunnel which would reunite them. Soon after their wedding, the cemetery had been divided by a cinder-block barrier, part of a fortification some 100 miles 
 (160 km) in length which would eventually consist of a row of reinforced-concrete panels, a second fence and a "death strip" patrolled by snipers. Its architects called the structure an "antifascist protection wall" but Berliners knew it simply as die Mauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Election: Divided They Stand | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...Lipstick Queen Invisible Liner This clear lip liner works with every skin tone and any shade of lipstick. The twist-up pencil creates a smooth barrier that prevents lipstick from bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Insider's Top 10 Picks For Fall | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...black family at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue signifies a shattered political barrier, but our reactions to Michelle are evidence that it takes more than an election to untangle some of the unique dilemmas black women face. Thanks to her, our issues are front and center. It feels a lot like when nonblack friends and colleagues ask those dreaded questions that force us to reflect and explain: whether we can comb through our hair, if we wash our braids or locks and the most complicated of all - why it all has to be such a big deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Michelle Obama's Hair Matters | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...been an inferno as a ferocious fire, spurred by abnormally high temperatures and single-digit humidity, ripped through steep canyons, dense brush and forest untouched by flames for 60 years. The advancing fire has cut a moonscape swath through the middle of the mountain range that forms a barrier between the greater Los Angeles area and the Mojave Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Budget-Strapped California Afford More Wildfires? | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...idea is that [the phones] would be very accessible for everyone who would like to program and not have a very high barrier to entry,” said CS 50 TF Nathan C. M. Leiby ’10, who received his phone in late August...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer and Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Google Donates Cell Phones to CS Classes | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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