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...your head. You're thinking, 'Oh no, not this one' or 'That one looks like bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and p.r. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance - whatever you want from an in-flight neighbor. "You have control over everything you do when flying - which flight, what you eat - except who you sit next to. So I thought, let's see if we can change that." Since launching last fall, AirTroductions has racked up almost 14,000 members worldwide. Post a free online profile, register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seatmates | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...year-old daughter, also named Paula (Yohana Cobo), only to find her layabout husband Paco in a drunken sulk. Soon after, Raimunda learns that Paco had sexually assaulted Paula and, in self-defense, she knifed him to death. Now, what does Raimunda do with the body? A neighbor pops in to say he's going away and leaving her to mind his restaurant next door. Raimunda and Paula drag Paco's body there to stash it. Almodóvar has managed, suavely and plausibly, to get a corpse in the freezer and a ghost under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedro's Ghost Story | 5/20/2006 | See Source »

...keep our mouths closed. But this president has given us the power to fight." Romero tells the Americans that Chavez has helped eradicate illiteracy in the barrio, assisted residents fighting to get legal titles to their land and supported cooperatives that are helping more people get work. His neighbor, who lacked a basic education but now studies under a government-sponsored education program, says she will soon be working thanks to the president. One American, visibly moved by the presentation, shouted, "Let the revolution continue!" Another opened his wallet abruptly during the talk and offered $10 to a community speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's Revolutionary Tourists | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...populist reaction against change. Bob Ledoux Le Cannet, France The Nile's Bounty Re "The waters of life" [May 1]: as a retired U.N. and World Bank consultant who has worked in Egypt and Ethiopia, I found your story on the increasing cooperation between Egypt and its southern neighbors extremely interesting. You reported that Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said, "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves." But Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow — But Steady — Change in France | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

...reform. Ultimately, only improved economic conditions under a more open system in North Korea can effectively stop the flow of refugees. If China really wants to stem illegal border crossings and help the North Korean people, a great step in the right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace globalization rather than just providing aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would come to a halt, a result they and other activists would warmly welcome. CHEN LIANG Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 22, 2006 | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

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