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Track 5: Rhiad and the Bedouins This song, oddly, starts with him wailing almost exactly like Robert Plant in Kashmir. Then Axl sings really fast. Kind of a nicely sung and interesting chorus, but the rest of it sucks. Slash/Buckethead/Bumblefoot seems to get to do whatever they like. Grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Democracy Review | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...issue for the industry," says Petratherm's managing director, Terry Kallis, "is to prove flow." In other words, can water be pumped out fast and hot enough to drive that turbine on the surface - and keep doing so for decades? "I'm confident Australia will be the first" to achieve this, Kallis says, because "we have the hottest rocks in the world of this type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Heat | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...comic who spent much of his career railing against America's war culture, George Carlin had some pretty good war stories of his own from his tour of duty on the 1960s cultural battlefield. Once a popular, short-haired comedian who did parodies of commercials and fast-talking DJs, Carlin saw the counterculture revolution and decided he was talking to the wrong audience. So he grew long hair and a beard and began doing routines about drugs and Vietnam and uptight middle-class values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: Rebel at the Mike | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...Obama's theological beliefs are clearly more liberal than those on the Christian right. But it's the beliefs of the latter that are fast becoming a minority. A new Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey of 35,000 Americans reports that 70% agree with the statement "Many religions can lead to eternal life," including 57% of Evangelicals. No less a figure than George W. Bush responded "no" when asked in 1999 if he believed heaven is open only to Christians. Those evolving, more relatively open-minded attitudes are one reason Dobson's organization has steadily lost members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Dobson's Obama Hit Backfiring? | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...swept into a fast current, don't fight it, according to the U.S. Army Survival Manual. In fast, shallow water, swim on your back, feet first. Keep your feet up to avoid hitting debris or getting pulled under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why More Men Die in Floods | 6/24/2008 | See Source »

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