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...says. "We don't have enough teachers. Most of those we do have are untrained, and facilities are at a low level. It means the quality of the students we produce is poor." Reuben Buarobo, who comes to Honiara's U.S. war memorial for the great view and to listen to reggae on his radio, hopes to be part of the solution. The past six years have been wasted because of the conflict, but next year he intends to start training as a primary school teacher. After searching in vain for a sponsor to pay for his tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Storm | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

...watertight case keeps your standard or Mini iPod dry even in the pool or at the lake. The shocking twist: with the included headphones, you can listen to music while submerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Cool Tech | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...true that films are more sex-obsessed these days. All of pop culture is. Americans listen to Howard Stern, giggle over Janet Jackson, collect unrated DVD editions of the American Pie movies, gossip about celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a towel on a Monday Night Football teaser, leaf through Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, log onto the Internet and bathe in all that warm cyberswill. But all this is essentially kid stuff, somewhere between adolescent and infantile in its voyeuristic avidity. It codifies the randy talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Let's Talk About Sex | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...hole. So the race begins the next day [after your election]. We're collecting for six years out. That means we don't work on Monday. We don't work on Friday. I've got to get money, money, money, money. And I only listen to the people who give me money. With the shortage of time and everything else, you've got to listen to the $1,000 givers. I mean, no individual is corrupt, but the body has been corrupted. I've been trying to put in a constitutional amendment to regulate or control spending in federal elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We'll Miss and What We Won't | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...have ever envisioned some of the complicated things we get involved in now, which very often are driven by almost a religious belief--like gun control, partial-birth abortion, gay marriage. I think we get driven an awful lot of times by those narrowly focused constituent groups. Sometimes we listen to those real volatile special interests more than doing the work that most people want--and that's staying somewhere in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We'll Miss and What We Won't | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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