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...than are Internet search engines or chat rooms. In a country where politically incorrect websites are routinely shut down and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...says he first got interested in politics two years ago after stumbling upon a forum in which exiles and dissidents chatted using PalTalk. Huy began voicing his own opinions about corruption and democracy. But he says he was arrested last year and jailed for nine months, along with his brother Truong Quoc Tuan and a friend, after Huy revealed their identities to PalTalk members they thought were fellow democracy advocates; they now believe one may have been a police infiltrator. Within days of his release in July, Huy again started raising his voice online. He explained: "Vietnam doesn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices of Dissent | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...after Huy last spoke with TIME, a dozen police swooped into a Ho Chi Minh City Internet caf? and rearrested him. His brother, Tuan, thinks police followed him and Huy from their home to the caf?. "Huy was chatting on PalTalk when a big man in a white shirt came up and grabbed him around the neck," says Tuan, who was also arrested but released a day later. "They handcuffed Huy, and took us to two separate police stations." Huy hasn't been heard from since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices of Dissent | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...than are Internet search engines or chat rooms. In a country where politically incorrect websites are routinely shut down, and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [Aug. 28]: it was interesting to read about Westerners like Jamal Harwood who have converted to Islam. Western countries offer the freedom to convert. But in Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daily Hell of Baghdad | 9/16/2006 | See Source »

...medical marketing folks - it ain't them. I can't read a magazine, see a movie or even be put on hold on the telephone without being blasted by medical advertising. We're desensitized, immune to it - after all, how many "best doctors" can there be? But your brother-in-law kicking you up and down the court and then getting a good night's sleep afterward? That brings in patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rotator Cuffs: the Next Big Thing | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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