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...Iraqi refugees and lost talent Most of those who have the means or the ability to leave the country have left. By that I mean the entire intelligentsia of the country ? doctors, architects, engineers, businessmen, people with money or with university degrees that they can use or with family connections. You had an exodus of real capital because people have left with their life savings, all of which are now sitting in banks in Jordan and Syria. And you also have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left...
MOVIES . . . STRIPTEASE: Whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, 'Striptease' is not about Demi Moore1s getting naked ? well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say a damned handsome woman. But so far as this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one, says TIME's Richard Schickel. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter. The film places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight...
...could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way ? from my mother, from 1960s-brand feminism, from female competitiveness ? that I am able to look myself in the eye, hold up Friday1s book with pride and embrace the power and joy of my own, and every other woman1s, beauty? Friday, author of the best sellers My Secret Garden...
...than the month before and far worse than had been expected. While the imbalance with China jumped 31 percent to $3.06 billion, Japan's deficit declined 23.7 percent, to $3.13 billion. Although there was a record number of exports, it was not enough to offset the number of imports ? fueled by a growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning...
...when investigators traced 21 cases back to their source, they identified raspberries grown in some regions of Guatemala as the culprit. The fruits were contaminated with microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine and causes watery diarrhea. Antibiotics cure the infection, but diarrhea and other symptoms can last weeks. ? Jenifer Mattos