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...been scammed. It’s because, when that snake kept moving without its head, I suddenly felt very far away from home, and that feeling was very real.The other day, a friend of mine told me about riding on the back of a motorcycle taxi after work. I asked him if it was worth it, and his response said a lot about Shanghai. “It’s really fun,” he said, “but I couldn’t figure out where to hold on.”—Columnist...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Shanghai-tened Reality | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...officials opened scores of rural clinics and trained thousands of midwives. Nepal and Sri Lanka have trained midwives in emergency obstetrics. In the Indian states of Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, pregnant women now get 1,400 rupees ($32) to spend on whatever maternity services they choose--even a taxi ride to a clinic to give birth. Afghanistan has built 1,465 clinics and trained about 19,000 community health workers since the Taliban was ousted in 2001. The incidence of this worldwide tragedy can be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Through his innovative taxi service, Palmer hopes to promote clean energy usage and inspire people to take personal responsibility for their footprints...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renewable Energy Car Featured at Solartaxi Luncheon | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...certainly has motive, means and opportunity to knock off a dozen or so malefactors who probably deserve to die but have escaped conviction. The cop could truly believe that killing them is nothing less than righteous. He might think of himself as De Niro's Travis Bickle did in Taxi Driver, using his gun to wash the New York streets clean of their wretched refuse. And at the beginning of this film we are shown a grainy video of Turk (De Niro), who says he's been a cop for more than 30 years, "and in that time I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Righteous Kill: De Niro and Pacino, ReHEATed | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...fresher in audiences' minds than his career-making performances in The Godfather and Scarface. And the money-making but vapid comedies De Niro, 65, has turned in, like Meet the Fockers and Analyze That, feel a lot more than a generation removed from the actor's iconic turns in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Righteous Kill Pairing Earns Hollywood Shrug | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

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