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...photographs tell a tale of what is being lost. Sakamaki wandered through old mud-brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Sands in China's Stark Xinjiang Region | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Like those of its competitors in New York or London, the sleek glass and steel offices of media company Rotana are filled with preening attitude and fashion-conscious staffers: assistants teeter in shoes that might have absorbed much of their monthly paycheck; executives parade the halls in power suits and pencil skirts. But Rotana isn't in New York or London; it's in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, a country in which women normally adhere to a strict dress code in public - a black cloak called an abaya, a headscarf and a veil, the niqab, which covers everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rights, and Challenges, for Saudi Women | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...Megnut.com she posted the result: "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie." I decided to make it and compare it to one of the best chocolate-chip cookies I've ever had: the ones that chef Kerry Simon, of the restaurants Simon in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, includes with a glass of milk on his platter of Rice Krispies treats, cotton candy, sno balls and other childhood favorites. (See nine kid foods to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

There have been cameras pointed at war zones since 1855, when the British photographer Roger Fenton toted his tripod and glass-plate negatives to the scenes of the Crimean War. A few years later, Matthew Brady and his team made their unprecedented record of battlefield deaths and civilian devastation in the Civil War. For most of us, our memories of war in the 20th century are from an image bank of photographs, from D-day to Korea and Vietnam--pictures that not only recorded those wars but also informed the way people felt about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Obama could be seen through the thick glass windows of the Oval Office reclining in his chair in shirtsleeves, talking to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The speech arrived a few minutes later, and after reviewing the draft one more time, Obama walked back to his chair, grabbed his coat, and then, at 11:15 a.m., made his way outside to face the world for the first time, as a 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a grim visage that seemed more appropriate for a runner-up than the winner of such a prestigious prize, Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Surprising Nobel Wake-Up Call | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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