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...more than 200 countries, includes language preferences in every user's profile, and last year started offering a "Skype Me" mode that encourages calls from strangers. "It's an area that, frankly, surprised us," says Skype's global-marketing executive, Saul Klein. "People are becoming voice pals instead of pen pals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead--Reach Out and Gab to Someone | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

Colorful, splashy illustrations are great, of course, but give this book credit for trusting children to appreciate exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings as well. And for treating kids, in typography and design, to a truly elegant piece of bookmaking. The fable-like story is a prickly dialogue between a duck and an owl, who, although they see virtues in each other, can't quite become friends because each fails to understand why the other does things in such an odd way. The duck likes to glide back and forth in the water; the owl prefers sitting high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...infamous racism would probably do a lot to help,” but this sentence unfortunately follows his praise of Le Pen’s “wisdom.” No one has contributed more to the spread of racism in France than Jean-Marie Le Pen during his long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...have been forced to confront a major crisis of identity amid issues of economic inequality and multicultural cohabitation. There is no easy and quick solution, but there is throughout France a real hope and a real desire to move things forward, and not backwards, with the likes of Le Pen and his followers...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped for his pen and a National Turkey urgently seeking presidential pardon. He leaves Tuesday to celebrate the holiday at his home in Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Week: Home for the Holidays | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

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