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...very impressed with the report on women in Japan [Aug. 29]. Here in Japan, few people have given such opinions fairly, so I have not been proud of being a woman for a long time. I want to cry out to all Japanese men: "We women are not birth-giving machines." Kimie Ueno Nishinomiya, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...able to handle inhuman degrees of pain, and soon that part of the person's being takes on a personality of its own. Once that happens one time, it begins to be a preferred way of coping." That is how, he explains, a new negative experience can give birth to a new personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Robert. And Tommy And Bobby and Wanda ... | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

Garcetti's zeal for photography reaches back "as far as I can remember," he says, though it heightened after the 1969 birth of his daughter Dana. Throughout his legal career he carried one camera loaded with black-and-white film in his pocket, another with color in his briefcase, and he took candid snaps of crazy street scenes, staid political events, even solemn police funerals. He attended night-school photography classes for more than four years and covered his office with his framed pictures but never considered publishing his work for fear of snarky criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Focus | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors' Summer Picks | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...Increase in monthly stipends, to $916, the French government will give any parent who takes one year of unpaid leave from work after the birth of his or her third child 1.9 Average number of children per woman in France, where the fertility rate must rise to 2.07 to prevent population decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

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