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...they are also sensitive to local concerns and aesthetics. The mosque that Husain helps administer, in a gritty working-class Manchester neighborhood, uses reclaimed wood and solar panels on the roof to power its under-floor heating. Inside, peach carpeting and plasma TVs give the air of a prosperous suburban English home, while the prayer hall has carvings inspired by the 10th century North African Fatimid dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...more than 20 employees. In Beijing, state-owned enterprises have been ordered not to lay off any of their employees this year. The government is also looking to make positive examples of private businesses that keep on staff. That's why Liu Jingyu, a local entrepreneur in a suburban district of Beijing called Daxing, was recently handed the keys to an expensive Audi A8L; he'd created more than 1,600 jobs at his company, most of them for local Daxing citizens. Jingyu is promising not to cut either jobs or salaries, to take on more employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can These Jobs Be Saved? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Kayla, a three-month-old chimpanzee, sits dressed in human clothes in a baby’s crib. In the wild, she would live with her family in a pack and range over a 3,000- to 15,000-acre expanse of jungle. Here, she lives alone in a suburban bedroom, leaving only to perform tricks and entertain people...

Author: By Lewis A. Bollard | Title: The Chimp Charade | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...Chimps belong in the real jungle, not the suburban...

Author: By Lewis A. Bollard | Title: The Chimp Charade | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...following night, a volley of shots peppered a Sydney home in what police fear was another biker-gang-related incident. Then on Tuesday afternoon, two men, one of whom was a member of the Rebels bikie gang, were shot dead in a suburban home in Australia's capital, Canberra, a town not renowned for violent shooting murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outbreak of Biker Violence Leaves Australia on Edge | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

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