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...captives were fed twice a day: chopped raw vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers and onions, wrapped in flat, unleavened bread. Sometimes, a spoonful of hummus was added to the vegetables. A 2-liter plastic jug was in his cell on the first day; when it ran out, Waddah would knock on his door and ask the guard for a refill. Once a day, the captives were taken to the toilet in groups of five. Their hands bound behind them, they would queue up at a tap just outside the toilet. One by one, the captives were untied, and they filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disappeared of Iraq | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...using odors to get consumers in the mood to spend. Oh, dear. I'm not much of a shopper, but now I may never shop again. First it was the Muzak that drove me out of most stores, then the scented candles in gift shops. Whew! I turned and ran. Now more scents in every store? I simply dislike artificial scents, but many people are hypersensitive to smells and can be made ill by them. I guess there's always mail order and online shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 2006 | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Villiers, 57, may be the perfect candidate to turn tennis around because he has nothing to prove. He's rich and secure. At Disney for 14 years, he most recently ran its international TV business, then he moved on to a private-equity fund. "I've had a great career, and I don't care if I lose my job," says De Villiers, whose cancer is in remission. "So I'm prepared to do the right thing and go to the edge to get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports Business: Tennis Gets Reset | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Eastwood, a narrator claims a vote for Ellsworth will mean a vote for Nancy Pelosi and a gay agenda. "Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after paying for sex with a man who ran a gay brothel out of Congressman Frank's home," the narrator says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Republican in Trouble in Indiana | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...your son returns home, as in the case of this friend, and informs you that as per what he learned in class that day, you, his mother, are immoral for not wearing a full black chador, and are disrespecting "our culture." Not long after, her son ran home from school weeping, after his class chanted "Death to America" at an annual school protest rally. His classmates, being young and therefore casually cruel, told him that because he had been born in America, he would need to die too. That day, his school, teachers and most of his classmates forever lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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