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...says, before giving driving directions, "it's a nice gadget." The town square is tiny, with no stores or restaurants, and is encircled by abandoned 15th century stone and wood cottages that look like drooping gingerbread houses. It is the vision of a dying mountain town, except for the odd 5-m-by-8-m rectangular slab of metal perched on the rocky cliff above, like a giant shining postage stamp. By 10 a.m., with a computer adjusting the mirror's position, the sun is indeed ricocheting down to the piazza, but it's more like a light in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reflections On An Alpine Village | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...than 10%) and indigenous peoples (who, together with a smattering of other ethnicities, make up the remainder): Spicy grilled fish courtesy of Malay chefs compete with juicy pork dumplings from the Chinese and the flaky delights of Indian breads. Around me, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and even the odd Zoroastrian slurp noodles and suck prawn heads. It's like a United Colors of Benetton advertisement, except with piles of discarded chicken bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading the Curry Leaves | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...doubt prefer the modern look, and the rest of us will get used to it soon enough. And it's undeniable that the paper has vastly improved its navigation. You could get lost in the old days, particularly in the depths of the first section, wading through business news, odd-lot foreign pieces and lengthy jumps from the first page. Now you pretty much know where you are, with clearly delineated page headings like The Economy, Leading the News, Politics & Economics. (There's even a page now that carries the rubric From Page One. Can't be clearer than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critiquing the New Wall Street Journal | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

Then add to a Harvard student life the Harvard Faculty, those souls who’ve spent their lives in this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Internationalism Everywhere | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...This holiday season, though, Rio's organized crime proved me wrong. In the early hours of Dec. 28, the drug gangs that control most of Rio's 600-odd favelas, or shantytowns, launched a coordinated series of attacks across the famously beautiful city. In the most horrific incident, thugs torched an interstate bus with the passengers still on it, burning eight people alive. It was an unmistakeable message to authorities on the eve of new governor Sergio Cabral's swearing-in: we will not sit back and let you curtail the cocaine and marijuana dealings that bring us millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Takes the Holidays | 1/7/2007 | See Source »

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