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...inaugural meeting of the Myanmar Bloggers Society in Rangoon. One member, a computer instructor who later witnessed Suu Kyi's Saturday meeting with the monks, uploaded a grainy digital photo she took of the momentous event. A few hours later, the picture had traveled across the globe...
...there was Rex Humbard, a wide-eyed guitar-playing, TV-loving revival preacher from Little Rock, Ark. In the early '50s, the self-described "electronic evangelist," who helped eulogize fan Elvis Presley, began to develop a following with TV broadcasts that for a time reached more parts of the globe than any other religious show and claimed 20 million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio: a 100-ft.-long (about 30 m) cross, lit up with thousands of red, white and blue bulbs...
...this is not about clever marketing. Rather, the treaty should be interpreted as the materialization of an instinct of survival for the continent as a whole. After single-handedly running the globe for centuries, Europe today faces the threat of sinking into oblivion. Through political, economic, and institutional progress, membership to the Union has brought benefits to many countries far beyond the original founders. Where totalitarianism had once consigned whole societies to poverty and underdevelopment, membership to the EU has made Spain and Poland, among others, thrive in the environment of globalization, furthering their relationships with older members like France...
Grimsson concluded that harnessing the “fireball on which we sit” could revolutionize energy production across the globe...
...October, the Tate Modern (6) will present the work of avant-garde artist Louise Bourgeois. Plus, among the best free sights in London are exhibitions in the massive Turbine Hall tate.org.uk/modern) The Tate's neighbor, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, hosts Love's Labour's Lost until Oct. 7 shakespeares-globe.org...