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There are so many implausible things about Nashville's Kings of Leon that the band's implausible lyrics are often overlooked. But let's start there, because more than any other contemporary rock act, Kings of Leon write in the key of crazy. "Sex on Fire," the group's first major hit, has a chorus that goes, "You, your sex is on fire/ Consumed with what's to transpire"--a cheesy come-on followed by the warmth of legalese. The Kings' songbook also includes "Pistol of Fire" ("It's gonna tickle/ You're gonna giggle"), "Soft" ("I'd pop myself...
These Cinemax-quality lyrics are sung in the anguished tone of radio-friendly modern rock over some pretty excellent guitar riffs. It's a recipe that works, at least commercially; a year after the release of their fourth album, Only by the Night, Kings of Leon have chugged past the million-sales mark and boast the No. 1 song on Top 40 radio ("Use Somebody"). They also have the best bandcreation story in memory. These facts are not unrelated...
...protection, its eco-tourism sector is a $2 billion-a-year cash cow and its forest cover has actually doubled since the 1980s - thanks to more trees per capita being planted there than anywhere else. "Cutting down a single tree in Costa Rica is cause for scandal," says Pedro Leon, head of the administration's Peace With Nature Initiative. (Read how Costa Rica is turning its environment into a luxury tourist destination...
Arias backers like Leon, who as the director of Arias' Peace With Nature campaign is in charge of green projects from national park endowments to getting climate change into school curriculums, admit there are some "inconsistencies" in the government's actions. But he insists Arias is "sincere" about the environment and deserves credit as a "world environmental leader." Leon adds that "making peace with nature," like making peace between ideological enemies a generation ago, is a "a logical sequence to Arias' career." But with little more than a year to go in his second, environmental presidency, a growing number...
This summer, as the Obama Administration prepared to confront Iran with proof of its undisclosed uranium-enrichment plant in Qum, CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered his staff to work with European intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive presentation about the facility. Although the Iranians had taken great pains to keep the facility a secret, building it into a mountain 100 miles southwest from Tehran, the CIA had known about it for three years...