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...other forums have been positive, one describing it as "History in the making, Jay-Z will bring a fresh flavour." Noel Gallagher of the Manchester rock-band Oasis, always good for a comment, stirred things further when he opined to BBC News, "If it ain't broke don't fix it...I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." Gallagher obviously missed previous years' sets from De La Soul, Cypress Hill and the Roots. And while Jay-Z plays on Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Glastonbury Fest Still Rock? | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

Local government, however, refused. "We're a town that's just barely getting by and can't afford to fix all those violations," says Mayor Ellett. Nevertheless, in June 1991, FEMA suspended Grand Tower from the insurance program altogether. "Taxpayers will not be called upon to put money back into a flood area if the community hasn't done its part by enforcing the ordinance," says David Schein, FEMA's senior flood-plain-management specialist. That essentially means the only assistance the Federal Government is likely to provide is temporary shelter and food. "That's really humanitarian," snaps Ellett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unluckiest Town in America | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...that it's an easy one to fix. Most of the nutrient pollution that ends up in the Gulf comes from the hundreds of thousands of farms in the Midwest. The only sure way to shrink the dead zone is to reduce the amount of fertilizer running off those farms. But thanks in part to the push for corn-based ethanol and the skyrocketing price of food crops, U.S. farmers are planting more acres for corn than they have since World War II - including 15 million more acres last year than in 2006. Although there are measures farmers can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf's Growing 'Dead Zone' | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...past. "We have to decide how much we're willing to spend to save the Gulf fisheries," says Daigle. "Right now, we don't seem to be willing to invest much." Put simply, the Gulf is running out of air - and we're running out of time to fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf's Growing 'Dead Zone' | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...really based on five key issues. One is, how do we restore people's freedoms? We really need a new constitution; we need to establish a rule of law. We need to depoliticize the security institutions and national institutions, which have been so militarized and politicized. We need to fix the economy by restoring macroeconomic stability in the country and reconstruction in the country. For that we need international support. We need to restore basic services: schools, hospitals ... We need to restore our productivity of the land. We need to restore Zimbabwe again as part of the family of nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Foe: The Runoff Must Proceed | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

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