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...essential element of most great skate parks is the bowls--rounded craters that can be as deep as 12 ft., which skaters can barrel down, building enough speed to coast along the walls and climb the rim. All bowls--round, oval and peanut-shaped--are descended from the ur-bowl of skateboarding, an empty swimming pool. But park design has moved far from the basic pool formations. "Now it's about taking those and intersecting them," says Hollyday. "I have to keep thinking of the next shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All in the Swoop | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

LONDON—Enter any cheap café in Vietnam and you are likely to be welcomed by a steaming bowl of the national dish “pho bò,” or beef noodle soup. Look around the café and you might notice something odd: almost every patron is male and almost every server is female. Go outside and the story is similar. While men wile away the days idling over iced coffee, women toil in the paddies, planting rice, gathering it, and then manning stalls to sell it at market. Holding all top political...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, | Title: Progress By Pho Pas | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...sooner had the helicopters whisked away Ferdinand Marcos, his family and entourage than the looters and the curious began to arrive. They found a half-eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: 'Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...average American would love one of these jobs - but they don't even think to look. Out of sight, out of mind. The government will need to wake up to the modern age, using recruiters and newspaper advertising. They might even need to run an ad during the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam Wants You | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

Pretty Swift It takes about five minutes to assemble the Grilliput, a petite stainless-steel grill you can take anywhere. The parts pack up into a slim 11-in. tube weighing just over a pound. $29 at rei.com Optional fire bowl, $13 at amazon.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boffo Barbecue | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

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