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...international aids conference in Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nkosi Johnson | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...international AIDS conference in Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us?we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsmaker: Nkosi Johnson | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...study overseas (at Oxford) and choosing to wed the Harvard-educated Masako, a civil servant at the Foreign Ministry whom he met at a reception. Naruhito attended the delivery and held the baby in his arms moments after the birth. "We might see a picture of Naruhito changing a diaper," says Ken Ruoff, American author of The People's Emperor, about the postwar monarchy. "That would send a message about changing gender roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Latest Craze | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...same treatment--showing us how thoughtful adults react when their children hit the skids. For example, after his mother brings home a new baby, "Billy," 3, regresses and wets his bed at night. Billy's parents don't make a big deal of it and let him wear a diaper to bed. He soon adjusts to his new role as big brother and grows out of the problem. When parents are calm, they demonstrate just the sort of self-control their kids need to learn. The authors are especially good at illustrating the inescapable role of the child's individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Over The Hurdles | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...Monday Louisiana Congressman John Cooksey told a radio show, "If I see someone come in that's got a diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over." (He later apologized.) On that same day, the pilot of a Delta flight in Texas had a Pakistani American removed before takeoff because he said his crew did not feel comfortable with the man aboard. Delta offered him a new ticket--on another carrier. (It later apologized.) In Lincoln, R.I., someone hit a pregnant woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) with a stone. She has been calling midwives to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backlash: As American As... | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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