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There is no such thing as too extreme for Mike Roselle. The environmental activist has scaled the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore to call attention to environmental issues and driven spikes into trees to sabotage loggers' chainsaws. He's even held camps to teach more than 1,000 youths how to do the same. Now Roselle has a new book, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action. He talked with TIME about his choice of methods, where we're winning the battle against climate change and why politicians should be getting arrested...
...much anticipated E.U. report on last year's five-day war between Russia and Georgia held Tbilisi responsible for triggering the conflict but blamed Russia for creating conditions that helped spark it. Both sides claimed vindication from the 1,000-page document, which also found that Russian allies committed ethnic cleansing against Georgian civilians...
...Square's version of Oktoberfest, one of many riffs on the original held around the world, is sedate in comparison. Cantabridgians have celebrated the German beer festival for over 30 years, and today, Oktoberfest festivities commandeered much of the Square with brass bands from across the country, local jewelry makers, and the omnipresent scent of deep-fried mystery food wafting through...
...Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening policies, there are countless examples of how the country has changed over the decades. In the sphere of foreign media coverage, perhaps the most obvious came last week, when 300 news executives arrived in Beijing for the country's first World Media Summit, held Oct. 8 through Oct. 10. President Hu Jintao addressed the gathering, saying China would "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters and facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with China's laws and regulations." He noted the growth in the foreign media...
Three days after the Reserve Bank of Australia unexpectedly raised interest rates, the monetary policy committee of South Korea's central bank held a meeting. The Oct. 9 gathering was closely followed because the Australian move raised expectations that other central banks would also tighten. Korea held the line. Citing "uncertainty as to the economic growth path," the Bank of Korea kept interest rates at an ultra-low 2%, the result of six rate cuts over the past year...