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...Indonesians these days are definitely making themselves heard, even in the thatch-hut hamlets surrounding the Archipelago mine. Some in the community, like village headman Marten Katiandagho, believe that preserving the environment is all well and good, but that the area also badly needs the jobs and the tax dollars the mine will bring. "People need to eat," he says. But other villagers have battled Archipelago ferociously, even forming their own NGO, called the Alliance of People Against Mining Waste, to stage protests and lobby in Jakarta. Says Tajudin Hema, one of the leaders of the antimine group...
That potent combination caught the attention of music mogul Alan McGee (who signed Primal Scream and Oasis, among others, to his former label) when he saw Glasvegas playing third on the bill at Glasgow's tiny King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2006. "The night was more exciting to me than when I saw and signed Oasis at the same venue," McGee wrote on his blog for the Guardian. Lisa Marie Presley was inspired to seek out the band in Scotland last year after hearing their demo online. By this June, influential British music magazine...
...estimated two million people have fled the coast, but some residents decided to wait it out, especially as forecasts shifted Gustav's landfall farther west. Monica Spurlock, manager of the Pizza Hut in Waveland, Mississippi, brushed her hair back from her eyes and gazed at the Gulf as she filled five gallon containers with gas. She said she didn't leave during Katrina, and isn't leaving this time. Her employees, however, aren't taking any chances. Only two of the 22-member crew elected to remain on call through the storm...
...Most of the restaurants Obama frequented as a kid have disappeared. The Mr. Burger that he went to after basketball team practices on the corner of Dole and University streets - not far from where his parents met at the University of Hawaii - became a Pizza Hut and is now Robata Grill, a Japanese BBQ joint. Only Grace's Inn, a hot-plate diner full of favorite local dishes like chicken katsu, remains, though it has moved down the street a few blocks. One place Obama is likely to have patronized is Waiola Shave Ice, with the best frozen treat...