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...constituency of environmentally concerned groups should not be underestimated. Their influence on global public opinion, and even consumer behavior, may be the single most important reason why more than 700 of the world's leading corporations (among them major oil companies and auto manufacturers) have gone to Johannesburg to tout their earth-friendly credentials. Indeed, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has worked hard to promote business-environmentalist partnership as a key component of a strategy to protect the environment. So, while the planet may be a long way from being saved, when the corporate titans so often accused of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Summit Founders, But There's Hope | 9/3/2002 | See Source »

...There are no human sacrifices at the temple these days. But the mystique of ritual killing is so powerful that even those who actually don't perform it claim to do so. In their camp in the cremation grounds beside the temple, a throng of tantrics tout for business by competing to be as spooky as possible, lining their mud-walled temples with human skulls and telling tall tales of human sacrifice. "I cut off her head," says 64-year-old Baba Swami Vivekanand of a girl he says he raised from birth. "We buried the body and brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing for 'Mother' Kali | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...tailored his syllabus to meet the demands of Project Health—from the first day, his students repeated phrases such as, “Eske ou gen manje pou tout mwa?” or, roughly, “Are you running out of food at the end of the month...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unconventional Classes Offered In Summer | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Not Oprah! | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Indiana's state Democratic Party notified Senator Evan Bayh and Representatives Julia Carson and Baron Hill that they will probably be evicted from the offices their campaigns rent in the state party HQ in Indianapolis. Indiana Democratic chairman Peter Manous says the party will no longer be able to tout the popular Bayh on its yard signs. Party officials are worried that the new law will further disconnect politicians from their home states. --By Karen Tumulty

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2002: New Campaign Rules: Stay Away | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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