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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There have been other warning signs, of course. But until that day at the beauty salon, I had ignored any hint of a return to 7th-century mores, preferring to savor a few extra weeks of denial before the government-issued burqa arrived at my doorstep. A month ago I met a few girlfriends for coffee at a caf? popular with young people. Upon lighting a cigarette, one of them was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in caf?s. Now half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. An ingenious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Creeping Restrictions in Iran | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

When Bill Clinton found himself approaching the age of 60 on Aug. 19, people detected a hint of sourness from the second youngest ex-President in American history. "For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing whatever I was doing, then one day I woke up and I was the oldest person in the room," he told the International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week. Although he may wax nostalgic for years past, he has also been keeping an eye on his future. Ever since he left office, the former President has been on an almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton's Second Act | 8/23/2006 | See Source »

...Gates asked that provocative question on the opening day of the conference, and are committing their considerable financial resources toward finding an answer. In their remarks, they highlighted the need to develop microbicides and oral prevention drugs while we wait for a vaccine. And they will get their first hint at how smart their decision was this Thursday, when scientists from West Africa report the initial results from the first trial studying an oral prevention drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hopes for Preventing AIDS | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

...haven't been to Doug Wallace's place before, the big black spider hanging above the front steps will give you, if not a heart attack, a hint of what's inside: 83-year-old Wallace-"I'm a bit of a joker," he says, for the spider's only plastic-and, lurking among the books and papers that swamp what most people call the lounge room and he calls his workshop, more spiders, real but safely dead and under glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask the Arachnophile | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Pressed again for her reaction the roller-coaster developments of the past week, Rice said, with a hint of exasperation, "I don't know. Maybe I'm just not as self-reflective as you think I am. You know, I was thinking, all right, we go from Rome and, kind of, 'What's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Plane With Condi Rice | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

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