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...point ran into his friend Nakamura. "It was original and simple in a time when handmade plush dolls were too ornate and craftlike," says the Giant Robot owner. "The prototype had great energy and didn't ask too much in terms of analyzing it as a form or design concept. It was just easy to like. So I ordered 20." They sold out immediately. Kim sewed a second batch of a new character, Babo (Wage's blue, buck-toothed, dumb-but-loyal best friend). They sold out in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling Ugly? | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...America or Hong Kong, not Istanbul," Burke says. "We don't have anything like it in London, Paris or Milan." Yet it is fitting that what is bound to become the prototype for a new era of shopping malls should be in the city that invented the concept. After all, the Grand Bazaar, the world's first covered market, has been trading since before Columbus landed in the Americas and contains some 4,000 shops, banks, cafés, a police station and a post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosporus Boom | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Middle East." But what right does the President have to decide which system other countries should live under? Democracy has to be desired, demanded and understood by the people. Look at the histories of prominent democracies; most involve civil wars, revolutions or painful, bloody transitions. In Iraq the concept of democracy is strange and new, so it is inevitable that democratization will be a long, drawn-out process with many pitfalls along the way, with no guarantee that democracy will develop. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Andrew Hailstone Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ascendancy of the Centrists? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...concept of being concerned about locally owned business started with Frank Kramer and myself working with Michael Sullivan when he was mayor,†Shapiro says...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Niche Amid a Sea of Giants | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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