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Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South. But in the 20th century, air-conditioning, bug spray and the miracle of water control helped transform it into a migration destination for the restless masses of Brooklyn and Cleveland, Havana and Port-au-Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Coarse as it is, 4chan has no rival as a hothouse for memes; they're bred and refined, and then they can escape and run amuck through the culture at large. For better or for worse, this is what the counterculture looks like today: raw, sarcastic, bare of any social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Master Of Memes | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

The commemoration ceremony, followed by a seminar and a protest rally, started calmly, but as the crowd grew, tensions rose. Former students, both male and female, demanded the release of Ghazi's brother and Mosque head Maulana Abdul Aziz, who has been detained by government forces since his capture a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Anniversary in Pakistan | 7/6/2008 | See Source »

If Africa is to be truly free, if - decades after throwing off colonial rule - it is now to escape poverty, corruption and autocracy, it needs a second, quiet revolution. The repression and electoral theft in Zimbabwe, the riots and civilian coup in Kenya in January, both suggest that the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Mugabe: The Last of the Dinosaurs | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Venezuela's leftist President, Hugo Chávez, may have reduced poverty in this oil-rich country, but his Bolivarian Revolution has yet to bring safety and security to the streets. (This summer he's had to deploy national guard troops on public buses in the capital to keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the 'Saint' Has a Criminal Record | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

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