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...routine in Jordan when a girl has gone missing, the same girl will be returned to him soon after as a corpse, even if she proved to be a virgin. "Once the story is out in the community," says Asma Khader, a lawyer and feminist, "they have to kill." Forbidden sex isn't always the issue. Marrying or divorcing against the family's wishes can also provoke murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Honor | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...proposed replacing of UNSCOM with a financial monitoring system. Dowell points out that even the existing oil-sales limit amounts to more oil than Baghdad is currently able to produce. "It won't mean much unless Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without a comprehensive Iraq strategy, Washington faces the danger that the current impasse causes an informal collapse of sanctions," says Dowell. "That would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Calls U.S. on Iraq | 1/14/1999 | See Source »

Sooner or later, however, someone will do it. In countries with national health services, such as Canada and Britain, it tends to be easier to dictate what sorts of genetic enhancement will be permitted and what will be forbidden. But in the U.S., despite the growth of managed care, there will always be people with enough money--or a high enough limit on their credit cards--to pay for what they want. "Typically," says Princeton's Silver, "medical researchers are moved by a desire to cure disease more effectively. Reprogenetics [a term Silver coined] is going to be driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designer Babies | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...centrist solution. And just like Powell, he?s a little gun-shy about political specifics. ?We must make peace among ourselves before we make peace with our neighbors,? was all Shahak would say after formally resigning his commission Thursday. After a 36-year military career during which he was forbidden to speak publicly on politics, it sounds as if Shahak is still clearing his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli General Goes Where Colin Powell Feared to Tread | 12/24/1998 | See Source »

...FORBIDDEN BROADWAY You had to look hard for good entertainment on Broadway this year, but the latest version of Gerard Alessandrini's perpetually updated satirical revue has found it. From the ragged sets of Titanic to the titanic ballads of Ragtime, this show has got Broadway's number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1998 Theater | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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