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...social settings, the environment has improved dramatically, especially for young people, he says. "Some of them don't even think it's an issue." Still, there are limits. The Beijing Queer Film Festival has been held four times since 2001, and this year marked the first time that the event went off without any official interference. But Cui Zi'en, one of the organizers, said they "kept a deliberately low profile" this year by moving the festival to an outlying neighborhood. (Watch TIME's video "Gay Marriage in the Heartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...brought a sign that said, "The tree of liberty has to be watered with the blood of tyrants," and you're carrying a goddam gun at a presidential event. I think those things make people wonder what you're about.' CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC host, castigating New Hampshire man William Kostric for taking a licensed, loaded handgun to President Obama's town-hall meeting on health-care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...auction lot of 21 Michael Jackson items, ranging from vintage posters to a shirt, sold for $205,000 during a Las Vegas event the day after his death. The same items fetched only $15,000 in a private sale about six years earlier, says Darren Julien, president and founder of Julien's Auctions, who hosted the event. Among the items was a heavily-beaded shirt the pop artist wore during his Victory tour. "We had estimated it would get $2,000 to $3,000, but we sold it for $54,000," he says. (See TIME's photos of the Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson, Woodstock Spark Surge In Memorabilia | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

...often, if we're particularly hungry). It's true that most of us would prefer not to think too much about where our food comes from or what it's doing to the planet - after all, as Chipotle's Ells points out, eating is not exactly a "heady intellectual event." But if there's one difference between industrial agriculture and the emerging alternative, it's that very thing: consciousness. Niman takes care with each of his cattle, just as an organic farmer takes care of his produce and smart shoppers take care with what they put in their shopping cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

Obama, President Barack •a dozen people show up at Phoenix event of brandishing guns - including someone who says he's carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle "because I can do it. In Arizona, I still have some freedoms" - and the Secret Service just shrugs •report on bipolarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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