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Burger King has not exactly lived up to its name in Japan. It has only 15 stores nationwide, compared to McDonald's roughly 3,750. But there's no denying that Burger King now offers the biggest burger in town. This month, the American fast food chain, in an oddball marketing tie-up with Microsoft, launched the Windows 7 Whopper, a 5-inch (12 cm) tower of meat stacked with seven beef patties and weighing nearly a kilogram - more if slathered with ketchup. The magnitude of meat has evidently blown the idea of a traditional lunch of fish and rice...
...Cosmic Egg,” however, Wolfmother—with an all-new lineup supporting Stockdale—prove they have the talent and creativity to sustain their remarkable success. With intense, intricate, and looping guitar riffs, high pitched, Zeppelin-esque screeching, and rough, blazingly fast drum beats, “Cosmic Egg” is over an hour’s worth of epically long, stadium-worthy anthems...
...this. “Pilgrim” starts with an upbeat, swing-feel guitar riff that is soon joined by percussion. “She’s got hands that go inside my mind,” Stockdale moans. The quick pace suddenly slows to half as fast, adding to an overall blues style maintained throughout the track...
...disc boasts an impressive and well-arranged combination of bluesy and frenzied songs, and Wolfmother can remain booming at full blast without growing stale. Six-minute epic “In the Castle” contains interspersed fast and slow tempos and a very classic rock feel. Starting off with nearly 40 seconds of silence, the track begins with slow, calm, and collected vocals. This is quickly joined by powerful half-note guitar chords and a guitar lick that leads into a faster tempo and repeat of the verse. With lead singer Stockdale’s passionate wail...
...hard to see how the competing underlying objectives influence both sides' approach to the deal. Having tried unsuccessfully to sideline France from the deal, Iranian officials have talked of possibly extending the range of suppliers of enriched uranium to include China - which is fast emerging as Iran's most significant economic partner and is not aligned with the more dire Western reading of Iran's intentions. And Iran will likely insist that it send its uranium to Russia in smaller installments and over a longer time frame, to test the bona fides of its partners without surrendering most...