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Even circumciser Massita realizes the changing times. None of her daughters has shown an interest in taking up the family trade. When she dies, she says, she will have her knives buried with her.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Rites | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

Imagine living with your entire family, wife, brothers, sister, children, their wives and husbands, and children, in a tent the size of a car trunk. Imagine that tent is a waist-high from made of sticks and scraps, sacks, blankets, has no floor and no sides so that the freezing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying to Refugees | 11/23/2001 | See Source »

Eventually "The Name of the Game" becomes a multi-generational story as the rebellious daughter's sensitive poet husband turns into a new version of the venal Conrad. But long before that the book has degenerated into a crude lesson on the corruption of the bourgeoisie, the likes of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bad Marriage | 11/20/2001 | See Source »

Tsai holds the patent on slow opening scenes, and this one doesn't disappoint. We see a man (Miao Tien) at a kitchen table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Watch | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

Most experts advise against it. Besides, there's no practical way to do it. Tossing your mail into a pressure cooker set at 15 lbs. for 15 min. would do the trick. Anthrax dies in wet heat above 250[degrees]F. But you would end up with pretty soggy letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handle With Care | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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