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...Ladies prefer to keep silent while they queue up all their lives at public toilets, missing the show after [intermission], doing kung-fu stances to pee because the seat cover is too filthy," says Jack Sim, president of the World Toilet Organization (WTO), a global body with representation from 42 member countries, which advocates for better public sanitation practices around the world. "We don't talk about [public restrooms]. And what we don't discuss, we can't improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Flush | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

...nothing. It didn't approve or disapprove them, but left Bush free to romp over the legal rights of anyone suspected of terrorism. As Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the head of its Center for Health and Homeland Security, has pointed out, staying silent is not the way this constitutional game should be played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress on Gitmo: Too Little, Too Late | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

...Broadway shows, and see live jazz at the Village Vanguard. None of it, though, seems to have a lasting effect. It is impossible to feel isolated because so much is going on. The enormity of the city invades my life and the lives of everyone around me, yet silent walls separate us from each other, creating the disquietude I feel when I dim my lights for the night...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley | Title: A City of Strangers | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...drink from a water fountain, I meet a young girl, perhaps three or four years old, who is holding a hollowed out version of Cinderella’s carriage with a pour spout. I watch her give it to her brother, who drinks from it in large silent gulps. She looks at me and says, “My Cinderella!”—a proud proclamation of her desire to share with...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley | Title: A City of Strangers | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...Rian Pelor, a music writer for Trax magazine. Certainly, there is no musician like Dhani in the country-he is Indonesia's Cobain or Lennon. And while his new musical tack has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters, what if it does articulate a concern of Indonesia's silent majority? Channeling their feelings is something that Dhani has never failed to do in the past. "Music can reach the masses in a way that Muslim teachers cannot," he declares. "We hope to touch the kids in a way that will make them think about their faith." For now though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guitar Warrior | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

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