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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It was, of course, just a random ugly experience - the kind of thing that can happen anywhere. But it was the first day I'd ever spent in South Africa, and it left an impression. As I'd discovered firsthand, it can be hard to escape the damaging cliché...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Investors Fear to Tread | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

The furor in China surrounding the discovery that children and the mentally handicapped had been kidnapped and sold into slavery is showing no sign of abating. It seems increasingly likely that the controversy will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of the country's civil society. Police said they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slave Labor in China Sparks Outrage | 6/20/2007 | See Source »

As, alas, it turns out to be. It also turns out to be the insuperable problem A Mighty Heart cannot solve. If this were a fictional film in which the possibility of rescue remains alive until the end, the possibilities for suspense would be endless and ever-tightening. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frustration of A Mighty Heart | 6/15/2007 | See Source »

In many ways, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Coney Island has fallen long and hard from its apex in the early 20th century, when its grandiose rides and spectacles--it once featured a Lilliputian village populated with 300 midgets--were a must-see, even for A-list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Coney Island | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

Like CNBC, HGTV is a creature of a certain economic heyday (the early aughts housing boom, as opposed to the late-'90s NASDAQ bubble) that has had to adjust to tough times, in this case by offering escapism that turns head-on into the very thing people want to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Economics on TV | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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