Dragons, Skulls Thrill Iraq's Teen-Age Tattoo Fans
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Need a skull, a dragon or a naked  woman? Descend a flight of steps to a dingy corridor and step  into Baghdad's only tattoo parlor.
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EL ASHA, Somalia  - Wringing her henna-tattooed hands, 18-year-old Rahmo Omar Hussein says fighting has robbed her of a precious commodity in one of the world's most anarchic cities.
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A young girl clutching her arm blackened by burns, dogs feeding off bodies in mass graves &#151; the images still haunt Sgt. Kevin Benderman 15 months after he came home from Iraq.
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In a region famed for its dates and poets, Sheik Adnan Aidani confronts a constellation of religious and political forces that hold sway in Iraq's fiercely traditional countryside and that may prove decisive in Sunday's election for parliament.
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"These World War I veterans raised a generation that did them one better"  CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. Frank Buckles, frail but sharp, surrounds himself with totems from another time and distant lands. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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To bin Laden, Iraq may be more important as a symbol than as a physical battlefield or training ground.
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FOXBOROUGH -- If there is any tattoo that befits a player best, it is the Down &amp; Dirty etched in black ink on the right side of Corey Dillon's chest. Such is his style of play -- bone-bruising running that thumps and pummels and tires a defense while keeping the ball away from a potent offense -- that New England ...
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A site called Iraqi Bloggers Central, which is quite upbeat about the American presence in Iraq, has provoked a deluge of intrigue and vitriol among its peer sites.
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A change to the country's national banner reminds a veteran of TIME's Baghdad coverage of the good old, bad old days in Iraq
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Chinese cigarette packs will have skulls, blackened teeth or diseased lungs printed on them in the latest effort to tackle smoking, but one expert said the images may actually attract younger people to take up the habit.
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It's an undercover movement &#151; literally: Tattoos have become a fad among many young Iranian women who proudly display them in private but must keep them under wraps from authorities.
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Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain. But like so much in Iraq, the rituals of death have been knocked awry by violence.
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The tattoo of the future may be good for your health rather than just your image.
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A 15-year-old Iraqi girl who claimed persecution in Baghdad because her family cooperated with the U.S. military has been granted political asylum here.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, security and hospital officials said.
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The most striking images of Iraqis as they participate in the country's first multiparty elections for decades.
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SHEIKH ADI, Iraq  - Worshippers sacrifice fowl and  offer dawn prayers to the angel Malak Taus as hundreds of  members Iraq's obscure Yezidi sect gather at their Lalish  temple to celebrate the summer feast.