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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to tell a village, 'You shouldn't accept these new wells or bicycles because it's from industry,' " says Stella Bialous, an adviser to the World Health Organization. "[But] when it comes time to pass regulatory things the company doesn't think reasonable, they can call in their chips. They have all these little groups dependent on their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet movie can rouse the dormant grouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...there's a whole vast universe that picture leaves out. That universe is people who are blogging not to reach a large audience, necessarily [or] to supplement their income. They're doing it to express themselves, to find out what it's like to write in public and to tell something of their own lives and experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Blogging | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...After her night with the Prime Minister, D'Addario rings Tarantini to tell him that the envelope of money she had been expecting wasn't there. Not that the 42-year-old woman sounds angry. She remarks that the Prime Minister had promised to help her resolve a local building-permit problem and that he wanted to see her again. "He said he has a girlfriend who he wants to have lick me," D'Addario tells Tarantini over the phone on Nov. 5, according to the L'Espresso tapes. When the Bari businessman laughs, D'Addario swears that those were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Berlusconi Tapes: 5 Ways to Evade the Scandal | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

What would you tell people who are inspired by your feat but fearful of going through with something similar? It's about getting out there and doing it. Just try your hardest and push to make it happen. It's pretty amazing what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teen Who Sailed the World Solo | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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