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From the ruins of a Vietnam-era commune, Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis) has built a Hobbitish house for himself and his daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). The place is their bomb-shelter refuge from the modern world Jack fiercely resists. Now it is 1986, Jack is dying, and he decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Misfits on a Sheltered Island | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

Just how good a workout is belly dance? That, of course, depends on how you do it--and how often. But practitioners say the precise, rolling movements of belly dance combine aerobic exercise with stretching and strengthening. "Everybody learning the muscle-isolation exercises says they discovered muscles they never knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Belly-Dance Boom | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

The anti-Syrian opposition is pressing for full withdrawal ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for May, and is using Syria's international isolation - and its failure to install a new regime of its own making in Beirut - to press the case. And their prospects have never been brighter, given the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon After the Syrians | 3/9/2005 | See Source »

Such theories justified brutal forms of exploitation of the poor during colonial rule, and they persist even today among those who lack an understanding of what happened and is still happening in the Third World. In fact, the failure of the Third World to grow as rapidly as the First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Poverty | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

The dying village's isolation is stunning. There are no cars or trucks owned or used within Sauri, and only a handful of villagers said they had ridden in any kind of motorized transport during the past year. Around half of the individuals at the meeting said that they had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Poverty | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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