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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...head when it said we have become victims of progress, an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle. In the past, heart disease mainly affected those in affluent Western countries. But today in South Asia, particularly in India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease. Let us go back to a way of living based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...business concept, the 12 Girls Band is more audacious than its pleasantly conventional music. The group was the inspiration of Beijing-based rock producer Wang Xiaojing, who several years ago hit upon the idea of forming a band by picking the prettiest women from China's élite musical academies. "First and foremost," says Wang, who in 2001 auditioned 4,000 women on the way to choosing his lucky 13, "they had to be beautiful. Twelve beautiful girls standing on a stage is a spectacle in itself, even without any music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dozen Roses | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...particular held out the highest hope," says Mark Bowden, who wrote a landmark story about interrogation in the October 2003 Atlantic Monthly. "But the human mind is more complex than that. There's no magic bullet." Over time, most intelligence professionals have settled on tools in the torture lite category. The FBI's methods fall on the genteel end of the spectrum. "Convicted felons have explained that they more likely would confess to an investigator who treated them with respect," according to a November 2002 issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The interview should be a seduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: What Works and What Doesn't Work: The Rules Of Interrogation | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...horrors of Saddam Hussein's regime, the actions of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib unquestionably violated international law. What's more, for two years reports have piled up about "stress and duress" techniques military and CIA officers are using on al-Qaeda and Iraqi captives. Those tactics--torture lite--also go against international rules; their practice may have encouraged the crimes at Abu Ghraib. --By Mitch Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: What Works and What Doesn't Work: A Pattern of Abuse? | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...action have ended in failure. Early flops included Fosters' (the company pulled out of a joint venture in 1999, with a loss of more than $125 million) and Becks' (the company left China soon after). Those that stayed have shifted strategies. SABMiller doesn't produce its top brands, Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft, in China. Instead, it buys into Chinese breweries and helps them upgrade. A-B produces Budweiser in central China and has turned it into one of the country's best-known foreign beers; it also has a 10% stake in Tsingtao; and it's now negotiating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble Brewing | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

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