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...which had a similar rocking feel (and perhaps even superior songs, as a whole), but took a whopping hour to slog through.The two-minute nugget “I’m Gonna DJ,” which R.E.M. played heavily on their 2004 tour, is the perfect closer to the album. Though they wrote the song before their last release “Around the Sun,” it’s easy to see why it wasn’t included on that album. “Accelerate” is everything “Around...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R.E.M. | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Hill will need to turn up the heat on North Korea even more. His somewhat unlikely ally in pressuring Pyongyang is Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea. Lee, a conservative who says he wants closer ties with Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Mr. Sunshine | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Closer to Utopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Refuge for Hippie Apes | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...that goal sounds utopian, it nonetheless came closer to being realized last fall. Even as Kokolopori sought the government's formal designation as a protected nature reserve (a move that may come as soon as June), Tusumba was leading the charge to apply the new conservation techniques more aggressively still to a third place: the Sankuru area. So convincing was he that President Joseph Kabila allowed the nearly 12,000-sq.-mi. (31,080 sq km) region to jump the queue and earn the reserve designation first. Adding that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Refuge for Hippie Apes | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. "The number of these terrorists is very small, and they think the Olympics is a perfect opportunity to magnify their influence with the attention of world media. It is natural that they would intensify their attacks as the games draw closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Murky Olympic Terror Threats | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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