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...refusing to eat anywhere that lacks the appearance of a sanitized upmarket eatery, mistakenly assuming that Thais are somehow more tolerant of badly washed food and dirty cutlery. The following places don't have air-conditioning to match global fast-food chains?but neither do they serve homogenized pap. Some have English-speaking staff and translated menus; when they don't, just smile and point. Prices are often as heavenly as the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gourmet in Bangkok Needs Street Smarts | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...wealthier nations like the U.S., pap smear tests to detect pre-cancerous lesions are commonly available, and incidences of the disease are very...

Author: By Alexander R. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Study Might Reduce Cancer in Developing World | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

Although the World Health Organization recommends that women have three pap smears a year, many poorer countries lack the money, technology and trained clinicians required to perform the tests—as well as the infrastructure needed to track women whose tests are abnormal...

Author: By Alexander R. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Study Might Reduce Cancer in Developing World | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

Best movie star, best TV host and best comedian? Come on! TIME is bent on reducing American popular culture to nothing but adolescent pap! P.J. PESCE Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 2001 | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...said nothing incendiary but did blab to the stranger about subjects best left for pillow talk: Conservative leader William Hague "sounds like a puppet," Tony Blair "doesn't understand the countryside," and "his wife is even worse," Blair's budget is "a load of pap." These are the standard opinions of well-bred Tories, and even the "sheik's" paper, the News of the World, took the deal when Buckingham Palace offered an on-the-record interview in exchange for the tapes. MY EDWARD IS NOT GAY, blared the headline (which, unbelievably, the Palace approved); we also learned that Sophie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinderella, Career Gal | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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