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...COMMUNICATIONS 50% Percentage decline in British pay-phone use in the past three years because of the increasing popularity of cell phones 30,000 Approximate number of iconic red phone booths-one-third of the nation's total - that have been removed in the past six years as a result of decreased usage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...approximate number of iconic red phone booths--one-third of the nation's total--that British telecom giant BT has removed in the past six years in response to decreased usage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...Because it's Paris, it's this place, it's my girlhood dream come true. Because in 1969, when I was 22, I came to Paris for the first time and stayed just around the corner, in a French crash pad at 9 rue Campagne Premiere. It was a six-floor walk up, with like eight people, and we all slept on the floor. I did a lot of drawings, and taped them all over the walls. And now these drawings are going to be on exhibition here. It's very moving for me. These drawings were done here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patti Smith — Artistic Triple Threat | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

Last November, Bowman played at a festival in Lahore during Pakistan's six-week state of emergency. He knew better than to tackle either President Pervez Musharraf or the Prophet Muhammad onstage, but found his show resonated with an audience used to seeing their countrymen locked up under antiterror laws. Back in Ireland, he's rankled a few Christian conservatives who have picketed his show, calling it blasphemous. One elected official of Northern Ireland's loyalist Democratic Unionist Party, angered by the comparison between Jesus' martyrdom and al-Qaeda suicide bombers, urged a boycott; and in a heated BBC radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy of Terrors | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...Back at the Draghici's, little Stefan is outside the front gate, fishing in a ditch with three other children. "I don't miss my parents, I often talk to them on the phone", the six-year-old declares with a motionless face. "I asked them to send me a racing car, but I only got candy and a regular car. I also asked them to send me an extra paddling pool. I want to have one of my own, because my sister always jumps into the pool and makes me wet." But in spite of all the Western consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Alone in Romania | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

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