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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to seeing the human face photographed, drawn, scribbled and painted on movie and television screens, on billboards, in fact on a vast range of surfaces in our world, including the rock of Mount Rushmore. But suppose we weren't? Suppose that representations of real people were rarer than hens' teeth and that the only artificial faces and figures we had to look at were imaginary, mythical and sacred--Jesus and the saints, the gods of Olympus and the like? What if we never saw, in the normal course of life, a recognizable picture of anyone we knew? What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: When Beauty Was Virtue | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...live more than two days' walk from the nearest road. Despite this, many speak excellent English, the medium of instruction in all Bhutanese schools. Villagers delight in translating the age-old stories of wicked demons and angry gods that once stalked the population. As for tourist touts, they are rarer than dragons. So laid-back are Bhutanese, said our tour organizer Sonam, that unlike their visitors, they have little use for vacations. "Life in Bhutan is so stress-free," he said. "Why would we need holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel Watch: Escape in Time To the Kingdom of Bhutan | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...this strain of modesty - sometimes even false modesty - is becoming rarer and rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why George Bush is the Brer Rabbit of American Politics | 6/21/2001 | See Source »

...Such doubts are rarer among the American families, most of whom are parties in a number of civil suits against Libya that have been consolidated before a U.S. District Court in New York. The cases seemed to be going nowhere after the Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that a sovereign state like Libya was immune from U.S. jurisdiction. Since then, however, the law has been changed to allow suits against certain states, including Libya. While they have been on hold pending the outcome of the Scottish criminal case, they are likely to get some impetus from the guilty ruling. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lockerbie Verdict: Case Closed? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...these smaller stands that one encounters the rarer delights of TV programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

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