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...photographs tell a tale of what is being lost. Sakamaki wandered through old mud-brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Sands in China's Stark Xinjiang Region | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...encourages men to be nicer to women with the slogan: "Satisfy Your Wife Emotionally and Protect Your Marriage." Officers at the General Presidency stress that the religious police should help protect women from abuse and violence, and insist they no longer demand that women cover themselves. "Now we just tell people that covering up is the right thing to do," says Bandar al-Mutairi, a Vice and Virtue officer in Riyadh. "Just like when you see someone smoking. You can't take away their cigarette. You just tell them smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rights, and Challenges, for Saudi Women | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...with the beginning of Wikipedia, there's very little rewriting going on, as people are just land-grabbing, throwing up a ton of recipes and nitpicking very few. So we really can't tell yet if this idea works. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Letterman took heat - when Howard Stern is criticizing your treatment of women, you know you've screwed up - and the questions came thick: Would viewers turn to Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno, if CBS didn't have to get rid of him altogether? And could Letterman tell sex jokes about politicians anymore? (See the top 10 political sex scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dave Letterman Survive the Scandal? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...soon as I got to his house in the Hollywood Hills, Strauss told me his first rule of ghostwritten autobiographies was that I would have to be completely honest, revealing things I wouldn't even tell my wife. I nodded as if I had that kind of secret inner turmoil. Then he said I should think of a turning point in my life. I offered the day I got my mullet cut off. He paused. "Did you ever almost die?" he asked. It turns out your expectations get raised after you've been hanging out with Mötley Cr?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogue Journalist: Writing My Memoir Palin-Style | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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