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...runs female-only trips to India and Bhutan through Portland-based Bridges to the World, tel: (1-207) 774-0940, is not alone. After pursuing gender equality, the travel industry is now flirting with segregation. Hoteliers are offering rooms with nail-polish remover instead of shaving foam and a trouser press. Train operators are wondering how exotic, really, is a Tokyo groping? If a traveler wants, it's now possible for flights, hotels and even a whole holiday to be a ladies-only affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maiden Voyagers Are Doing It Their Way | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...organization that contributes $25 million a year to British charities but remains preoccupied with refuting rumors about trouser length could use some professional help. Enter Dewar. While not a Mason himself, he has quickly been transformed into his new clients' staunchest defender. To questions about the UGL's refusal to admit women he responds, "In a sophisticated, grown-up democracy, if men want to do things on their own, that's totally natural." Dewar is planning a Freemasonry in the Community Week that will involve charitable events across England and Wales in June 2002. He is redesigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freemasonry's Flack | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...been a subject of speculation. Although its sole religious component is a requirement that members believe in a single God, to some outsiders the Masonic fondness for ritual looks very much like religious practice. A UGL booklet explains that "it is true that candidates have to roll up their trouser legs during the three ceremonies [for] membership ... [T]aken out of context, this can seem amusing, but ... it has a symbolic meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freemasonry's Flack | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...winter. It means I get to wear a coat. This love isn't about fashion or warmth. It's about carrying capacity. As it is now, I spend summers looking as if I suffer from a gross deformity of the thighs, my mobile phone an unsightly lump in one trouser pocket and my personal digital assistant a suspicious bulge in the other. But another, svelter option may be coming, as efforts by electronics companies to cross-pollinate phones and digital organizers finally make headway. Coming to Asia are multifunction mobiles that are small, stylish and, best of all, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Lump or Two? | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...down at the Japanese-American defendant and then gazes at the defendant's pretty young wife - his look carrying something more than ordinary interest. This man, Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), is the sole reporter, photographer and editor of the San Piedro Island newspaper. And he has information in his trouser pocket that could set the defendant free...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stylish Snow a Feast for the Eyes | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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