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...China Poly Group, an arms dealer linked to the People's Liberation Army, purchased the ox, tiger and monkey in 2000 and now has them on display in its Beijing museum. Ho bought the pig in 2003 from a New York collector and donated it to China. It is now also in the Poly Group museum. The rabbit and the rat are in private European collections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ancient Chinese Treasure Recovered | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...preview. Then it moves to Ho's Hotel Grand Lisboa in Macau. Its final destination hasn't been announced, though there is speculation it will end up in the Poly Museum with the other heads. "If the statue of the horse, the monkey, the ox, the tiger and the pig join together again after being scattered for 147 years, it will be an exciting feat," Niu said. "We are full of expectation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ancient Chinese Treasure Recovered | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...book, I decided to make myself a guinea pig and put gray hair vs. brown hair to the acid test on Match.com. I assumed that if I accurately reported my age and posted first a photo of myself with gray hair and then, three months later, the same image with brown hair, that the photo with brown hair would be deemed more attractive by more of the Match.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Over Going Gray | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...votes to rule alone or to hammer out a coalition with other mainstream parties, Jaroslaw invited two fringe political groupings - the nationalist Self-Defense Party, or Samoobrona, and the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families - to join the government in exchange for Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head of an ultraright nationalist youth group with a reputation for anti-Semitism and homophobia, was anointed Education Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brother: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...Paris is for lovers. Judging from 2 Days in Paris, the cliché's lone dissident is Julie Delpy, who wrote, directed, stars in, edited and took the stills for the film. She even warbles its end credit song. In her Paris every cab driver is either a sexist pig or a right-wing nut job, the outdoor market seems to feature more ickily butchered animals than it does flowers and vegetables, and the house Delpy's Marion and her American lover Jack (Adam Goldberg) shack up in belongs to her deranged parents (played by Delpy's own mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Not for Lovers | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

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