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...worrying over him when she noticed a hole in the bottom of his shoe he hadn't told anyone about. As soon as she could get a job, she did. Beginning at age 14, she worked at a series of local eateries, including McDonald's and Morrow's Nut House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cynthia Cooper: The Night Detective | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...audiences will be amused or annoyed by the final product is an open question. Director Spike Jonze is a Seinfeldian surrealist, and it's fun, especially if you happen to be a writer, to see Charlie trying to concentrate on his script while visions of coffee and a banana-nut muffin dance distractingly in his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: No Good-Time Charlie | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...when the customers are happy," he says. Bharti (the name is derived from the Hindi word for Indian) expanded its distribution network for prepaid customers, a large part of the market in India, to allow drugstores, corner groceries, even stalls peddling paan, a popular mix of betel nut and spices chewed as a digestive, to sell added minutes. Bharti gave goodies to the storekeepers, like free phone calls or silver coins, to get them to push Airtel over its competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Dialing | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...Betel-Nut Beauties Dare to Bare By BRYAN WALSH

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Whether the product being sold is beer, cars or Italian parliamentary candidates, skin sells. Just ask the betel-nut girls of Taipei. For years, scantily clad women have been used as fleshy sign-boards to attract customers to roadside stalls selling betel nuts, aka "Taiwanese chewing gum," from shops with names like "Erotic Bitches" and "Moulin Rouge." But on October 15, the county government, embarrassed by the display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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