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...afternoon is more of the same. A long bumpy drive up the Fuladi Valley to another damaged school. An impromptu visit to a potato farmer, who proudly tells the Colonel his harvest was the best in years. Three more bridges, all of them recently collapsed and needing urgent replacement. A sit-down meeting with an earnest young Hazara who wants to know if the Chiclets can help him start up a computer training center in Bamiyan. (Col. Walker tells him to submit a written request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding Afghanistan, One Bridge At a Time | 11/30/2002 | See Source »

Here comes another one of Dad's lectures, the kids must think as their father drives them to their public school in California's San Fernando Valley. "I know you get tired of hearing it, because I get tired of saying it," the old man says. "If you do what you're supposed to do, you'll have all the time in the world to do what you want to do." He shrugs his shoulders. "Of course I can see the look on their faces," he tells a reporter. "They'd rather hear the radio station than hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cube Squared | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...Vinotherapy, as the process is called, was developed by the French (of course!) at the Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Wine, New Skins? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...Truth is, Salans has taken a hit too. The French-American chef, who recently left Napa Valley's French Laundry restaurant in California, closed off the garden seating section of his year-old eatery, due as much to the decreased number of visitors as to the start of the rainy season. Instead, guests dine on a breezy verandah overlooking a lush forest of banana trees, palms, orchids and ginger flowers. Ceiling fans and geckos on the hunt lend an equatorial air, but the fine linens, crystal stemware and impeccable service could be straight out of a Michelin-starred Parisian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Table | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...first listen, one may assume that this statement originated from a person facing exile to the Death Valley, the glaciers of Alaska, or perhaps some foreign country...

Author: By Samita Mannapperuma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Reluctant Californian Turns Cantab | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

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