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...life in prison. But a growing number of female suicides in southeastern Turkey, the country's poorest and most conservative region, this year has raised suspicion that women are now being forced to kill themselves to spare their male relatives a jail term. In the province of Batman (pop. 500,000) hospital records show there have been 31 attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total, and five women have died, although the total number of actual suicides is impossible to document. "Women are locked away in a room with a rope and put under pressure...
David Roth's quirky idea for a restaurant--40 varieties of cereal served in a comfy, living-room-style café--has attracted both customers and attention with its playful décor and creative alternatives to greasy fast food. (Chex and Cheerios in chocolate soy milk with Pop Rocks, anyone?) Cereality's first three cafés, in Philadelphia, Tempe, Ariz., and Chicago, are thriving, but as the company tries to move from small-business start-up to national franchise, Roth has had to leave the fun and games aside to face a looming challenge for every new retail concept: once your...
Thank you for including a diverse group of influential people in your Time 100 list [May 8]. I was especially delighted to see the story on the South Korean pop star Rain. His fame across Asia and the upcoming release of his English-language album show that pop culture no longer moves strictly from West to East. I don't speak Korean, but like many Asian Americans, I am attracted to Asian entertainers. Janet Vo Boston It is good to know that American stars such as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney are using their public prominence to address serious problems...
...Before Dylan, pop music wallowed and exulted in the love song; the body of get-lost songs was small. If pop approached the topic, it was usually an invitation to mutual hermitting. ("Let's get lost," Frank Loesser wrote and Mary Martin sang, "lost in each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...bust out your dusty tambourine. Skip the Zimmerman bus tour of Hibbing. Instead, play those early songs again. You'll shiver at their stark profundity - at the way words, simple chords and a stray mutt's voice could combine to form an immediate and lasting legacy of pop poetry. Dylan was destined, as the beautiful lyric to "Mr. Tambourine Man" has it, "to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free." In following that fate, he taught the rest of us to dance with...