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...through the film - is Christian Mungiu's startlingly good drama set in 1987, during the end of Romania's Ceausescu regime. The burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabita is despondent for a reason: she's pregnant and is about to try to get, with Otilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Twisty Delights | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Within an hour of waking, many Americans interact at least five times with companies most of them have never heard of. Lather up with any popular brand of shampoo or soap in the shower; apply deodorant; brush your teeth; and put on sunblock, skin cream or hair gel, and chances are you are relying on creations touched by IFF, Givaudan or smaller competitors like Firmenich and Symrise. IFF's five largest customers, according to a recent JPMorgan report, are Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Colgate, Estée Lauder and Pepsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smell of Competition | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Though affordable is a relative term when it comes to organic ingredients, the Erbaorganics line, priced from $9.99 for baby shampoo to $19.99 for Milk and Oat Bath for Mom, is significantly less expensive than its higher-end counterpart. And the money donated to the WWO from Erbaorganics will be devoted to the psychological and medical needs of orphans in places like Serbia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Ethiopia. "People approach us all the time trying to affiliate their product with our organization," says Aronson, who gave her personal stamp of approval to the brand. "Erbaviva was a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Back: The Soft Touch | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Instead, Morales advocated state-initiated industry to mass produce and export healthy coca-based products (cookies, pasta, shampoo, wine, lotions) already manufactured on a small scale in Bolivia. The first of three state-run coca processing factories is currently under construction, with a view to turning 4,000 tons of coca into tea each year. At the same time, his government pledges ongoing eradication of excess coca, and strengthening of controls on narco-trafficking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Coca Politics in Bolivia | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...American soldiers, acting on a bad tip, goes barging into the home of one Yunis Khatayer Abbas, looking for bombs, or bomb-making equipment, or anything that may incriminate him and his family in this dirty deed. All they find is a locked ammunition box that proves to contain shampoo and party decorations. What Abbas and his brothers - one of them a university student, another a doctor - get is a mess of trouble, a year of incarceration and sometimes brutal interrogation before they are set free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iraqi Kafka | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

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