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...build 700 homes for squatters. He says landowners take advantage of the squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into her supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick, but it was that she could not pay these electricity bills. I moved her out. But when I went back to dismantle her house the landowners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Side of Paradise | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...summertime, the vast majority of products sold at my Whole Foods (fresh or otherwise) aren't from the Northeast. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the packages in which most Whole Foods groceries are sold say nothing about the food's origin. For instance, in the freezer section you can find Whole Foods' Whole Kitchen brand Breaded Eggplant Slices with Italian Herbs. The box tells you a wealth of information about the eggplant slices--that they contain wheat, dextrose and annatto (a dye); that they can be fried, baked or microwaved; that they have no trans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...charges of murder. (The remaining 20 charges will be brought to court after the first six.) Prosecutor Derrill Prevett described in his opening statement how police searching Pickton's ramshackle suburban pig farm about 15 miles east of Vancouver in 2002 found two women's heads in a freezer, cleaved in two and packed with their hands and feet. Human bones were found buried deep under an old pig pen. In Pickton's mobile-home trailer, said Prevett, police discovered a gun and a sex toy with DNA from Pickton and Mona Wilson, one of the alleged victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Serial Killer | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Throughout the campaign, Jefferson denied any wrongdoing. But he never offered an explanation for the $90,000 in marked bills federal agents confiscated from a freezer in his Washington D.C.-area home, only promising, when pressed, an "honorable explanation" in due time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unlikely Comeback of William Jefferson | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...losing patience with the city, and are asking that outsiders consider the election in the volatile post-Katrina political context. They fear that New Orleans could be viewed as not taking corruption seriosuly. "The national perception of this - 'How did they reelect a guy with $90,000 in his freezer' - is not what I'd consider the truth," says demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher. "This is far more complex. And I would ask the people of this country, especially those that are in a position to make a difference in New Orleans and Louisiana, to wait until this whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unlikely Comeback of William Jefferson | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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