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...cultural norms and social structures complicate matters. Most Asian societies are both sexually repressed and respectful of elders-a double whammy when it comes to dealing with sex offenders. From a young age, children are taught not to talk back to elders, which makes it harder for them to tell predatory relatives to stop or to report them. Asia values harmony, within families and society. A girl knows that to accuse an elder of touching her in the wrong places would embarrass her family and taint her as much as it would the offender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Parent Trap | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...being ethnically profiled? BARKIN: Yes, you are. I'm so happy there's another Jew in the room because when Steven isn't around ... CLOONEY: I hate to tell you, but Soderbergh is Swedish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean's Thirteen, the Interview | 5/30/2007 | See Source »

...Puchta, meanwhile, is out hunting for a 45-year-old local television star returning home alone - "visibly crushed," the tabloids tell us the next morning - from a hospital after giving birth to her gravely ill seventh child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking Brangelina | 5/30/2007 | See Source »

...didn't specify how he would do it. "In the end," he said, "prevention only works if we take responsibility for our own health and make the right decisions in our own lives - if we eat the right foods, and stay active, and listen to our wives when they tell us to stop smoking." That last reference drew a knowing chuckle from his audience, where many were familiar with Obama's own struggle to kick his nicotine habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Channels Hillary on Health Care | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...reassured them that you can't get AIDS from touching someone who is infected or breathing the air after they sneeze, and you can't get AIDS from a child who is infected with HIV. Fried, who is gay, also told them what it had been like to tell his conservative Jewish parents that he had the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Caribbean Getaway Becomes an AIDS Hot Spot | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

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