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Much of this can be attributed to the slowly loosening but still stifling vice grip of Confucianism. While Buddha and Jesus battle over the eternal souls of the Korean faithful, neither the Enlightened One nor the Anointed One has the same influence that Confucius does over people’s...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Finding the Seoul of Korea | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

First it was drinking. Then it was cell phones. Now text-messaging is the latest behind-the-wheel activity lawmakers are trying to curb.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

As the sun sets over the Jadriya bridge in central Baghdad , groups of young men jostle each other, laughing wildly on the sidewalk; their cars parked in a line that stretches from one side of the Tigris River to the other. In a country now in its fifth year of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Calm in Baghdad Last? | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

A week ago, a car bomb hit Harithiya, the same neighborhood where tonight the boys played soccer. The young men drinking beer on the Jadriya bridge were targeted in 2004 by religious extremists. Now they're back, but their presence is less an indication of improved safety than it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Calm in Baghdad Last? | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

It was appropriate that Russert found his way to Moynihan, who in his classic work with Nathan Glazer, Beyond the Melting Pot, offered the theory that ethnicity, more than class, was the key social-organizing principle in American cities. Tim was proudly, indelibly Irish--not only in his early beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People's Voice | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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