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...Byzantine Empire's air of inscrutability was used not to keep people out but to draw them in - crucial for a realm whose authority required awe and loyalty from its disparate subjects. The altars of Byzantine churches, for example, were hidden by huge screens decorated with icons of saints and martyrs that, while huge and impressive, are also as inexpressive as a child's doll. Without realistic human features or vivid detail through which to tell their stories, these icons demand that viewers use imagination to grasp the lives of the dead. The icons' elusiveness, in other words, allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Exhibition Uncovers the Secrets of Byzantium | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...consulting firm Accenture. But there is no place other than New York that boasts the combination of specially tailored office space and clustered expertise to challenge London's status. And even in the worst-case scenario, the London economy has one crutch that won't be knocked down: huge government spending ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Falling | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...course, if real issues do arise this year, both sides have created huge armies of lawyers ready to pounce on any dubious county board of elections with cuff links flashing. That should be enough to scare away even the nastiest of election-year demons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Be Monsters | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...author insists he doesn't study buyology, which he defines as "the multitude of subconscious forces that motivate us to buy," to help companies launch nefarious marketing schemes. Rather, he says, "my hope is that the huge majority will wield this same instrument for good: to better understand ourselves--our wants, our drives and our motivations--and use that knowledge for benevolent, and practical, purposes." Well, maybe. But then again, he has nothing to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...directly for a plant-based diet. The land needed for these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Al Gore’s Inconvenient Diet | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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