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...reporters interview regular folk on the streets and in the parks for very much the same sound bites. Khastekonande, says one person, describing the protests as "getting old." Says another: "I'm a businessman. For my business to succeed, I need for there to be calm." "We just wanna make some bread, take care of our lives and our business." "The ones who are rioting aren't of the people. I don't think that they're part of the people." "It's been several days that I haven't been able to bring my son and daughter...
...Canada and the U.K. - to the tune of some 20 million books a year. Parton has written her own children's book, I Am a Rainbow (Putnam), which will be part of that program as well. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Parton at Dollywood, her theme park, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (See TIME's list of the top Broadway shows...
...nuclear power. The primary mission of Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg on a recent visit to Seoul was to reinforce the U.S. military commitment to its long-standing ally, at a time when the "possibility of small-scale skirmishes [between North and South] is high," says Chang Kwoun Park, a navy captain at the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul...
TIME's annual health issue takes a close look at the prevention philosophy at work--and we focus on the Cleveland Clinic. Its prevention strategy, as staff writer Alice Park explains, is not just for the patients but for its employees as well. The 40,000 people who work at the clinic and its 10 affiliated hospitals are offered diet and cooking classes, exercise instruction and smoking-cessation programs, all free of charge. This results not only in healthier employees but also in lower health-care costs and fewer days lost to sickness. What works for the Cleveland Clinic could...
...Shanghai last week, officials shut down two film screenings and a performance of The Laramie Project, an American play about the murder of a gay college student. The "hot body" competition and drag shows, meanwhile, proceeded as planned. In May, plans to build China's first sex theme park were nixed after pictures of the venue's thong-clad, leg-shaped gate caught the attention of the press, though the city of Tongli, outside Shanghai, has its own sex museum displaying centuries-old sex toys and sexy statues to boot. (See pictures of life on the fringes of China...