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...versatility, adding more uptempo numbers to go with the emotional ballads for which they're best known. One other change: the ladies are messing with their signature look by, heaven forbid, dieting. But as Big Mama has proven, it's the size of the voice that really counts. ?By Mingi Hyun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Unavoidable, Unmissable and Uncovered This Fall | 9/4/2006 | See Source »

...hotly competitive field--Daewoo has introduced air conditioners that spray vitamin C into the environment--Kim isn't about to divulge what other nanotech projects he's working on. But one thing is for sure--from now on, even his dirtiest clothes will have a silver lining. --By Mingi Hyun/Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tech Specialists | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the couple seem to have found a formula for harmony. "We've recently been playing computer games, just like when we were dating," says Park. "It has helped soothe things at home." And they can save their fire for the competition. --By Mingi Hyun/Seoul

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Com2uS: PARK JI YOUNG AND LEE YOUNG IL/Seoul | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...economy began to get in serious trouble when Amin introduced his Mafuta Mingi (Wealth for Everyone) program. The implication was that there would be enough for all ordinary Ugandans once the Asian merchants who then dominated the economy were thrown out of the country. Amin subsequently expelled nearly all the 71,000 Asians then living in Uganda. In one typical case, says Athmani, a semiliterate Nubian told Amin that he wanted the Madhvani matchbox factory in Jinja. Beholden to the Nubians for support, Amin called the owner of the factory and said that he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Doleful Legacy | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...proprietors still do not know how to reorder goods. And new orders will not be shipped by suppliers without cash in hand, but Uganda's import laws specify cash only on delivery. It remains to be seen whether Amin can step up his lagging policy of mafuta mingi (Swahili for fattening up) by forcing the banks to offer non-secured loans to shopkeepers so they can reorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: What the People Want | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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