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What is surprising however, is the amount of the city's seculars (69% by one count) who also oppose the parade, though less out of revulsion and more to avoid trouble. Here’s the rub however: the parade is not actually passing through the Old City or the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. It does not even come close to any holy site. It will be happening in the “free”, universal, non-ghetto part of the city, the part that the ultra-Orthodox and Arab residents keep away from anyway...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Taming the Dragon | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...pulsing that they earn the word exotic. So for a pop listener, the thing you know draws you into the thing you don't know, and at the end you feel a little cooler just for having listened to the song. Making people feel cool - allowing your style to rub off on them for a few minutes - is what great pop is all about. And yeah, she's still making great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Madonna Still Rock? | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...what do you learn from Sudoku? Where's the allusive fun? The numbers in a Sudoku box are dry, curt, numbing; they live only in their own, square, self-contained universe; they refer to nothing but themselves. Numbers lack the allusiveness of words, their reverberations, their playfulness - how they rub up against one another and transform themselves. Add an S to comic and get cosmic; add one to laughter and get slaughter. You don't get this alchemy with numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

...adjectives lavished on a dish can be as important as the names of the ingredients. What would you rather eatplain grilled chicken or flame-broiled chicken with a garlic rub? Scrambled eggs or farm-fresh eggs scrambled in butter? "Think 'flavors and tastes,'" Rapp says, repeating a favorite mantra. "Words like crunchy and spicy give the customer a better idea of what something will be like." Longer, effusive descriptions should be reserved for signature items. Especially the profitable ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gregg Rapp: The Menu Magician | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town's population has grown to 70,000, many of them well-salaried young people who grew up with the town. They still go all-out during Cristo de los Remedios, but now there are plenty of other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Spain Sustain? | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

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