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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause. In the past two years, it has spent $30 million installing exercise equipment, such as chin-up bars and jogging paths, in 1,100 city parks throughout China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Sweatshops | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

TASTEFUL LANGUAGE I'm wracking my brain for culinary superlatives as the moon-faced restaurateur eggs me on, plying me with cold beer. Mouthwatering? Lip-smacking? Succulent? Scrumptious? "Yes, yes," says Chai Uan-kum, proprietor of Chai Chuan Chin, scribbling furiously. "Very good." His is the newest establishment on Manting Lu Road, Jinghong's premier eat street, and I've been enlisted to help draft a sign in English that will lure peckish Westerners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...reached the Thai border town of Mae Sai. "Growing up in Thailand, I was fascinated by my parents' stories of home," says Chai, 37. "So when I was 17, I came back." He found work as a goldsmith, obtained a Chinese ID card, and last March opened Chai Chuan Chin?fulfilling a lifelong dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...four, beaten unconscious with steel pipes. She carried him to an ambulance, but he died hours later. On the same street Abdul Munaf, 26, is nursing his bandaged hand. The very day Hamid and Khan were attacked, a policeman's bullet passed through Munaf's knuckles and grazed his chin as he threw rocks at the security forces that were strafing his first-floor balcony. "God, please do justice to them," hisses Qureishi as she navigates the rubble and the firebombed homes left by two months of rioting. "Please God, give them death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Own Beirut | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Even with knives as sharp as razors, it takes time to skin a man. After 35 minutes, flesh was hanging from Ram Mani Jnawali's shoulders and cuts crisscrossed his legs, ribs, arms, hands, ears and chin. His legs were shattered at the shins, broken stumps marking where the bones had been smashed across the steps of his house. But he was still breathing. And yet his teenage tormentors kept questioning him. "Why don't you leave the Congress party?" screamed one interrogator. "How much do you earn? Where are your daughters?" But the 54-year-old, whose only offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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