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...Soon I received a call from Steve Milton, Unilever's v.p. of communication. He told me that Q-Tips weren't meant to be put inside the ear, and are often used "for bits of household cleaning and to take off makeup," though later, under my intense questioning, he admitted that "the majority are used for cleaning small orifices in and around the head," which is clearly newspeak for ears. When I asked if he himself put the anvil maimers into his ears, he paused for a long time and finally said, "Well, I don't really have a rummage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Evil in the Ear Canal | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...mother. "She didn't speak to me for three months," Chittarika recalls. "She was scared. She thought I had bad spirits inside me. And then one day she forgave me, she accepted me." Her sisters have as well, welcoming their new sister with gifts of lingerie and makeup. The whole family now cheers her on at transsexual beauty pageants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boys Will Be Girls | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...along that Nature had made a big mistake. "I wanted to be a girl since before my memory starts," she says, looking entirely feminine in a simple black mini-dress, sipping a frappuccino in Starbucks. Growing up, she played with Barbie dolls and put on her mother's makeup. "In my heart I was a girl, my body just didn't match," she says. Now it definitely does. She does modeling work and appeared on the cover of New Half, a now-out-of-print publication for sao prapet song, "the second kind of woman." The magazine, published by Vanida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boys Will Be Girls | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...kind of woman, in case you're wondering - advocates for social change, few sao prapet song see any point in being political. Few care to lobby for changes in the rape law, which doesn't cover transsexuals, or for the right to marry. Najaira Lee, a 27-year-old makeup artist, says her biggest concerns are private: whether or not she should tell her boyfriend, an expatriate living in Bangkok, that she used to have a man's body. "Do you think I should?" she asks anxiously. She's not sure her boyfriend would accept her for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boys Will Be Girls | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...cross-generational appeal of pop music hit home with me [MUSIC, Feb. 26]. In 1968, at age 17, I saw the Doors in concert. In 1994 my 17- and 21-year-old sons were playing my Doors tape all the time. Your illustration of the baby wearing Kiss-style makeup, holding up a cigarette lighter (nice touch), looks just like my granddaughter. What goes around comes around. DAVE CONWAY Oxford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 2001 | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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