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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only one singing this song. Anti-consumerism groups like Adbusters and the Church of Stop Shopping have been buoyed by the recent hiccup in the Age of Excess and are protesting against shopping centers with renewed zeal. The Center for the New American Dream, which promotes responsible consumption, is out in full force this holiday season, explaining how to give gifts that don't include buying things at the store (for example: coupons for free babysitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...comes body-temperature, fresh from slaughter. Also in the goody-bag was a ham, contraband in this Muslim nation, but for me a Thanksgiving staple. It was crying out to be scored, studded with cloves, slathered with honey and mustard and slowly roasted. A friend with connections to the American military food supply business had been good to us this year. I am already looking forward to the leftovers - if there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Thanksgiving Comes to Afghanistan | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

Marrazzo, who is married with three children, admitted to paying thousands of euros to be with several South American transgender prostitutes and to using cocaine. His fall came after four Carabinieri police officers were arrested for allegedly threatening to make public the incriminating video of the encounter he had with one of the prostitutes. (See the top 10 Berlusconi gaffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

...spent months putting into evidence the satellite phone calls and financial records that Indian authorities say prove that the attacks were planned by a jihadi network based in Pakistan. U.S. investigators and U.S. citizens who witnessed the attacks gave testimony in Mumbai; Mumbai police also got help from American intelligence officials when they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan indicted seven people for planning the attacks, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year After the Massacre, a Trial Plods On | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

...world, one that inculcates tolerance of others. My belief is that we are doing what many other countries have failed to do. For me, I am a Zulu. I also have in me experience in rural and in urban areas. But I should not be trying to be an American or more British. I must be a Zulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacob Zuma: 'We Have to do Things Differently' | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

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