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...video for her latest single, Dirty, Christina Aguilera is clearly trying to offend someone. Wearing chaps, leather underwear and a smirk, she writhes in pools of muddy water and hangs out with other similarly clad colleagues in a boxing ring. Despite all this effort, the video has not proved raunchy enough to earn the ultimate publicity coup: getting banned by MTV. Rather, it has offended the government of Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 2002 | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...them together onsite? That's what affordable housing provider Peabody Trust is doing at Raines Dairy in North London. The block of apartments and live/work units is quicker and cheaper to build and will look better for longer than traditional blocks, says manufacturer Yorkon. The steel-framed modules, smartly clad in zinc panels and larch strips, come with doors, windows, bathrooms and kitchens, and each apartment will have a balcony. Models and plans can be seen at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) alongside other forward-looking waterside developments, towers and mobile homes currently being planned or built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polished Performer | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

...restaurant has two warmly-lit floors, with relaxing aquatic sounds piped throughout. Diners can choose to sit at small second-floor tables overlooking video screens of traditional Japanese images or at comfortably exclusive first-floor booths for parties of at least four. Friendly waitresses attend, clad in traditional kimonos. Yet despite the heady atmosphere, food is the real star at Fugakyu...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Famous Last Words | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...spent the next morning recuperating on the sand beneath fraying umbrellas, approached occasionally by children selling sour cherries. On the water, aging catamarans laden with bikini-clad teens drifted lazily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Whether the product being sold is beer, cars or Italian parliamentary candidates, skin sells. Just ask the betel-nut girls of Taipei. For years, scantily clad women have been used as fleshy sign-boards to attract customers to roadside stalls selling betel nuts, aka "Taiwanese chewing gum," from shops with names like "Erotic Bitches" and "Moulin Rouge." But on October 15, the county government, embarrassed by the display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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