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...interest has not disappeared. Critics accuse the commission itself of manipulating the facts. In May, the group reopened one investigation after a victims' association filed a complaint about a report. The victims' families claimed that North Korean soldiers participated in executing 273 civilians in one county on the west coast - contrary to the commission's statements that said the perpetrators were exclusively members of the South Korean army. Some say questionable proclamations like these reflect a political bias. "Many of the commissioners are ... people who have a historical vendetta against the South Korean government," says Shin Ji Ho, a lawmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Time Running Out to Dig Up S Korea's Mass Graves? | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

Quince Mil sits at a strategic point on one of the final legs of a new highway that will link Peru's Pacific coast to Sao Paulo on Brazil's southern Atlantic coast. A few years ago it would take a week to get from Cuzco, in the Andes, to Quince Mil, with the road reaching elevations of 14,000 feet and descending fast into thick, tropical forest. The same route, now being paved by a Brazilian construction company, will take around six hours when the road is finished. "The road means radical change for the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

Before matriculating at Harvard Medical School in 2001, Nina S. Dudnik worked at a lab in the Ivory Coast. And what she didn’t see there became the start of a now seven-year journey to right the disparity between research in the West and in developing countries...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Company Seeks Lab Resource Equity | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Over 140 years later, the creativity of burlesque has made a return farther up the coast in Boston, whose rich downtown theater district had, by the 1960s, devolved into “The Combat Zone”—a red light district of adult entertianment known for the sort of smutty striptease taht the world “burlesque” has been known to bring to mind. With the very popular holiday burlesque “The Slutcracker” now selling out shows at the Somerville Theatre and burlesque performances popping up around the area?...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting a Leg Up | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...African teams participating, the host nation is perhaps the weakest, though it'll be buoyed by fanatical home support. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon - traditionally the dominant teams of West Africa - all have the talent to shake up the tournament. Ghana and Ivory Coast, in particular, bristle with confidence and star power. The dark horse of the African field is Algeria, which qualified only after a tense playoff match with bitter rival Egypt on Wednesday in Sudan following outbursts of violence by both teams' fans in Cairo and Algiers. The victory has catapulted Algeria into its first World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Reasons to Look Forward to the 2010 World Cup | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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