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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President had looked forward to returning to one of the few international cities where he has a back-story. He took a train to Shanhai with his mother 26 years ago when his father was the U.S. representative to China. But as his custom limousine fitted with blue Chinese license plates zoomed over elevated highways illuminated in a lavender blacklight, he marveled at the transformation. Shanghai looks like it was created by 23rd century machines with blaring neon skyscrapers rising up in all directions bathed in bright lights and crowned by clotted spikes and crowns. They look more like space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shunted About in Shanghai | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...said National Security Adviser Condi Rice speaking with reporters after the Putin meeting, "because you know when the President is ready to go, the President is ready to go." With Bush gone, that meant the end of the security sweeps. Loaded down with thin blue plastic bags of custom made clothing, antique paintings and embroidered pillows they had picked up in moments they weren't tracking the president, reporters were spared the two hour security search that had been scheduled before departure. We boarded our plane without even a sideways glance from security officials. As we did, news reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shunted About in Shanghai | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Barbie-doll proportions. They have shirked marriage, preferring to live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does 90% of the talking.) "We look unreal," Kyoko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Tokyo, with Love | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...other writing, it is easy to see that his books have little to do with the often violent and harrowing situations that he covers: His writing is the story of people and their fight to live their lives, whether it be preserving a centuries-old whaling custom or trying to live amid war and ethnic strife. Massoud fought so that he could live in his homeland as he wished without brutal oppression (the same can be said of the subjects of his essays on Kosovo and Cyprus), just as the Taliban soldiers who faced him across the miles of battlefield...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Fire' From the World's Front Lines | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...really need to deal with this threat by strengthening our public health system, not as individuals. Buying a gas mask, for example, is probably not going to help, because masks need to be custom-fitted and the filters have to be new. Our country needs to make sure our public health services are prepared for emergencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthrax: Separating Fear from Fact | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

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