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...most promising of these is Big Bang, a domestically successful five-man hip-hop group formed through a Making the Band - style reality show in 2006. A Japanese-language mini-album (With U) enjoyed some success in 2008. Big Bang now hope their debut full-length Japanese-language release - having entered Japan's charts at No. 3 - will deliver the coup de grace. The good looks of the creators certainly won't harm the disc's chances. (See the Asia's best bands...
...pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
Lower sale prices aren't just a bummer for indie filmmakers; the prices also undercut the economics of American filmmaking, denying investors the sale price needed just to break even. Hope says some sales do happen for less money but they are not true business deals. "The international films can sell for low six figures to what buyers remain here precisely because they are subsidized by their local governments...
...will be a tricky issue that is likely to polarize everybody," Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, director of the National AIDS/STI Control Program, tells TIME. "But what we are saying is that we cannot as a country socially exclude these groups and hope that we will win the war against HIV at the same time." (See TIME's pictures of the crisis in Kenya...
...Much of the gay community has largely decided to abandon the fight for gay rights for now because the hostility they face is too intense. But they hope that initiatives such as the NASCOP research will help reshape Kenyan opinions about AIDS. "As a country and as an African culture, we live in full denial of the existence of homosexuality," says James Kamau, national coordinator of the Kenya Treatment Access Movement, which aims to increase the availability of all essential medicines to Kenyans. "Because of the cultural background, we shut our eyes, our minds and everything, yet it is happening...