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Imagine a protected park half the size of the continental U.S., covering a sea-life-loaded swath of the Pacific Ocean and the 607 tropical islands therein. The park's inhabitants live mostly in traditional villages and still remember how to do things much of the world has forgotten, such as make clothes from scratch and live off the land. This park would, in fact, encompass an entire country - the Federated States of Micronesia (F.S.M.) - and if the archipelago nation pulls it off, it will be the first of its kind in the world. "It's a visionary, radical concept...
...they're on Facebook or texting or whatever - but they're worrying about the same issues of coolness and conformity. The theme song of The Breakfast Club is "Don't You (Forget About Me)," and here we are, 25 years later, and it's clear that no one has forgotten and no one ever will...
Yeasayer have not forgotten the past, but simply evolved their sound from a ritualistic one into a futuristic one. Unpredictable melodies on tracks like “Grizelda” and “Strange Reunions” serve as reminders of the band’s earlier work, but these are exceptions to the forward-moving, electric sound of the rest of “Odd Blood.” This feeling of forwardness is largely due to a change in percussion use from “Cymbals.” The band has eschewed their old tricks...
...many aspects of contemporary society, an attempt to change the military’s stance on differing sexual orientation is a particularly significant step. While the military—which integrated blacks in World War II long before federal law ever did—seems recently to have forgotten the progressive elements of its history, the geographic diversity represented in the armed forces will make the eventual repeal of DADT an especially effective move. There are few organizations that simulate a more accurate picture of this country’s socioeconomic and regional gradations better than the military. If homosexuality...
...Some smugglers who have amassed wealth have become self-styled Robin Hoods of the desert, delivering food and blankets to the forgotten poor - many of whom still live without water or electricity in huts built of twigs among the dunes. "I'll bring a doctor tomorrow," promises Mohamed, one of Sinai's most powerful arms smugglers, after hearing the plea of a woman and her sick father living in a fly-infested dwelling of trash and debris, miles from any village...