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...incident has sparked a furor among average citizens, politicians and historical conservationists, who are demanding to know why the 610-year-old landmark was inadequately safeguarded, especially in light of the fact Korea has already lost more than 90 percent of its traditional non-religious architectural sites over the last century. "There's so little left, it is just heartrending," says Peter Bartholomew, president of the Korea branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and an expert on medieval Korean architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Korea Protect Its Historical Sites? | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Experts are baffled over why authorities failed to protect the historic building, given Korea's wooden and other historical landmarks have been easy targets for disgruntled citizens in recent years. Chae, the suspected arsonist, was convicted in 2006 for setting fire to Seoul's Changgyeong Palace, a world heritage site, but received an 18-month suspended sentence. Another historical landmark, an 18th-century command post at Suwon City's Hwasong Fortress, was also set ablaze in 2006. "There is nothing more flammable than traditional Asian buildings," says Bartholomew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Korea Protect Its Historical Sites? | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Sure, Yahoo! is practically a historic landmark, the last of the pure dotcom plays from the wild 1990s. But brace for impact: Microsoft hasn't even promised to keep the Yahoo! brand alive. ("That's a question we haven't answered yet," purrs Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's senior vice president of strategic partnerships. Really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal User's Guide | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

However, Cobb says that while race is "an important landmark [it is] not the determining one. We're not so hungry for a black President that we'll vote for anyone." He sees several calculations going on in the minds of the black electorate - and in each individual black political leader. "If Obama wins the nomination and wins in November, they will be in the position of being a black person who opposed the first black President," Cobb says. "If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination and then loses in November, then they will be in the position of having picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Civil Rights Divide Over Obama | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...sending E.U. soldiers to foreign fields. "This is quite unlike anything the E.U. has been involved in ever before," CER's Valasek said. Although he felt Chad was less of a clear E.U. foreign policy priority than, say, Afghanistan, Valasek said the mission would still be remembered as a landmark for the E.U. "It is no walk in park: Chad is by any measure a less stable and more dangerous theatre of operation than Bosnia. But it will be a key test of the E.U.'s military prowess, and if it succeeds, it will give a huge boost to confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU to Deploy Troops to Africa | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

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