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...Last Wednesday night on the final day of the census India's homeless were counted. In the narrow, crowded backstreets of old Delhi the enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Tabs on India | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Smithfield contracts for and raises hogs in more than 1,500 factory farms, largely concentrated in an ecologically fragile part of the state. Thirteen counties in the central and southern coastal plain house about 8 million pigs - the majority contracted to Smithfield - and their waste is kept in open-air lagoons, where it decomposes anaerobically before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enough of This Pigsty | 2/17/2001 | See Source »

...world has shifted since holiday season 1999, you could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue-light special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checkout Time? | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

Bombay's tiny but influential and prosperous community of Zoroastrians, known around the world as Parsi, is facing a thorny religious problem. The traditional Parsi death rite--the placing of a corpse in a dakhma, a small open-air amphitheater, where it is devoured by birds of prey in about two hours--is threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ornithology: What Bombay Needs Now Is a Lot More Vultures | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...London, I dragged my British friend (and host) around her hometown on the upper level of an open-air, double-decker bus where a dorky tour guide gave a running commentary on the sights of the city. As if that wasn't proof enough, I later discovered I was the ultimate tourist when I schlepped through endless souvenir shops searching for the perfect Union Jack pencil case for my sister, boxers for my boyfriend and tie for my dad. Somehow I didn't mind examining every London beer stein and every London magnet in every single store while my friend...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Courage to Fly | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

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