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If Kim is indeed incapacitated, dying or already dead, what might that that mean for the Korean Peninsula, for 60 years now one of the most heavily militarized neighborhoods on the planet? Korea watchers insist his demise is unlikely to mean the collapse of the North Korean regime, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Kim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Governments in Washington, Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo are now running this drill, because anonymous intelligence sources are saying Kim Jong Il, the 66-year-old dictator in Pyongyang, is ill. He might even have had a stroke, the reports say; in any case he did not show up for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Kim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

This particular slice of territory has gotten more attention over the past year than any of the locals - good guys and bad - might have wanted. Last spring's images of garbage covering entire blocks and neighborhoods in revolt were beamed around the world. News reports blamed the Camorra crime syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Garbage | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

The mob might also have veto power over whether a foreign painter gets to set up his outdoor studio on its turf. They're unlikely to have known that Liu was a millon-dollar painter - his support team telling anyone who asked that the Naples work was a "university project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Garbage | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

For most viewers, the dramatic pinnacle of the Sept. 6 Beijing Paralympics opening ceremony came when Hou Bin, a one-legged track athlete, spent five minutes pulling himself and his wheelchair 20m in the air by rope and pulley to light the Olympic cauldron. But to Song Yanan the highlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Disabled: Going for Gold | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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