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...life-size dream house, and an animatronic T. rex guards the dinosaur toys. One New York City Prada store, designed by the austerely hip Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, is more than half amusement arcade, with everything from glass dressing rooms that become opaque when locked to a fold-out stage for performances and movie screenings. Theme-park shopping isn't just for Disney World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Spaces | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s tennis team features four—count ’em, four—players with homonyms for monikers, now that freshman Brandon Chiu has joined the fold with co-captain Oli Choo, sophomore Jonathan Chu and junior Chris Chiou...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Foes Can Choose Their Poison | 9/13/2002 | See Source »

...salvaging. Funding from the U.S. Office of Military Cooperation is coming in waves: $6 million has already been spent, but a further $70 million has yet to be approved. The timeline is short, McDonnell says, but the Green Berets "were sent here to do this because they don't fold their arms and say it's too hard." Eventually, he says, "we will get the grenades." For now, rock throwing will be a way of "imparting principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Arms In The Afghan Army | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...Whether Savage has boarded the Titanic remains to be seen, but there are increasing signs that North Korea at last may be opening its barbed-wire gates, economically and diplomatically. Last month, the authoritarian leadership increased food prices, set artificially low by the government, by as much as 50 fold, while increasing miners' and scientists' salaries by almost as much. Many observers say the reforms, including the elimination of some manufacturing subsidies, signal that Kim is edging toward a market economy instead of perpetuating a system in which North Koreans rely on virtually free handouts from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light from the North? | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...shift away from the impoverishment of the country's Stalinist economy. The government acknowledged that market forces are, to a degree, being allowed to function in place of a system based on rationing and subsidies. Farmers' markets, for example, have been allowed to raise rice prices more than 50-fold, equaling black-market prices. To cover the increased living costs, the government is lifting wages as much as 30-fold, but free food and housing are being eliminated, as are subsidies to state-owned companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is North Korea Reforming? | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

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