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...Asian culture is chock-full of taboo subjects: sex, religion, sex, suicide and sex. Talk radio allows the shy and curious alike to discuss issues they would never dare broach even with their closest friends. Ye Sha hosts a late-night radio show in Shanghai, a city where the neon present collides with Confucian tradition. These days, many of her calls are from wives and mistresses on either side of the extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Waves | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...term jelly shoes may conjure up cringe-worthy flashbacks of 1980s neon clothes and She's So Unusual--era Cyndi Lauper videos, but the flexible plastic footwear has come back into fashion in a big way. Designer Michael Kors has jelly shoes in his summer collection, Burberry is offering classy updated jelly thong sandals with the company's trademark plaid encased in the transparent soles, and trendy teens around the U.S. are digging out vintage versions of the original squishy sandals. One of the most popular retro styles is the Melissa Love System jellied tennis shoe (left). Introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Your Feet Take You Back to the '80s | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...based on the rhetoric of many modern-day Christians--particularly politically active ones." Wehner recounted some of the most famous New Testament parables in which Jesus castigates the wealthy, and he concluded, "It's unwise for Christians to keep averting our gaze from warnings that Christ placed in bright neon lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Are the Poor--They Don't Get Tax Cuts | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

First off, the fields of now neon green mud that are supposed to be grass have got to go. In the dead of winter we shouldn’t expect much green on the Yard, but when the temperature rises above 50 degrees, the University shouldn’t bother spraying that unsightly, disgusting mix all over the place. Put down some sod and get it over with...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: How Green Was My Harvard | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

Harvard Yard boasts dozens of charming brick buildings. It has the potential to be truly beautiful. It’s too bad the Yard is disfigured by neon green mud and dilapidated asphalt paths...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: How Green Was My Harvard | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

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