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...ruins of Nyamata, they found some orphans from their extended family. Jacqueline and her husband eventually added five to their own three. "And that was when I started thinking of the future again. If the children were there, we had to work for them." Jacqueline opened a small stall, baking bread and sewing dresses. In time, it became a shop. Her husband began working a small farm, growing maize, sorghum, sweet potatoes and cabbages and tending two cows. Since 2005, he has also sat on the Nyamata traditional court, presiding over genocide reconciliation hearings. "We have many problems with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Change in Rwanda | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...even if President Bush's meeting is meant to derail the U.N. conference - and the very fact of the summit raises hopes that the long-time climate skeptic may be thawing - the U.N. process could easily stall on its own. The Kyoto Protocol required emission cuts from developed countries that ratified the treaty, but not from developing countries, including fast-growing emitters like India and China. That double standard was the stated reason the U.S. refused to ratify Kyoto, and it needs to be fixed in the next round of climate negotiations. But there was little said in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.N.'s Hot Air on Climate Change | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...only been three weeks since a bathroom sting operation made U.S. Sen. Larry Craig a household name, but already Royal Zeno is sick of talking about it. "I don't know nothing about what goes on in no bathrooms," he says whenever asked about the infamous stall where the Republican Senator from Idaho was arrested. Unfortunately for Zeno, it doesn't look like the talk will stop anytime soon, as the shoeshine shop he's run for the last 45 years adjoins the newest tourist attraction Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visiting Larry Craig's Stall | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

SALLY WESTBY, a Minneapolis resident, who along with her husband, on their way to Guatemala, made a visit to Idaho Senator Larry Craig's infamous airport bathroom stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...Others asked, how could poor food vendors cook at home when they live in cramped single-room quarters? "Delhi is a city of migrants," says Madhu Kishwar from Manushi Sangathan, a street vendors' collective. "Someone running a food stall probably lives in a miserable hovel where there's no space for cooking. And if you remove all the street food hawkers, who would feed the millions of brown collar workers, many of who were rural migrants and lived in similar hovels with no space or time for cooking? Certainly, nowhere else could they find full meals for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Free Lunch, But Don't Touch Our 25-cent Meal | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

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