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...postelection crisis has rallied Iran's rebellious youth as well as its street artists, albeit in furtive and risky situations. Graffitists hurriedly stencil their graphics in out-of-the-way alleys (for example, to mock the regime's insistence that foreign agents helped foment the street protests, a noted brother duo sprayed "God Save the Sk8" against a British flag). Break dancers and techno producers must be content performing in cramped basements and villas outside the capital. Nonetheless, the mere existence of these cultural jammers is a form of protest...
...housing crash into an advantage, by using 250,000 foreclosed homes as temporary hurricane shelters. "This option didn't exist two or three years ago before the real-estate market crashed," Ruben Almaguer, interim director of Florida's emergency management division, told the Miami Herald last month following a mock-disaster drill that highlighted the shortage of hurricane shelters in the state. "We can't not look at something staring us directly in the face," Almaguer said. "It's a solution to a potential problem...
...decades, the French have relished any opportunity to mock Americans for their supposed childish Yankee puritanism when it comes to matters of sex. These days, though, France is experiencing its own blush of youthful prudishness as an entire generation of younger French women says "Non, merci," to the summer tradition of topless sunbathing...
...band and made sure to get the crowd involved, rambling between songs like someone’s drunk uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. It’s easy to take Joel lightly, especially when he’s attacking bugs with a giant yellow fly swatter, putting on an awful mock-New England accent, and commiserating with the people in the nosebleeds (“You probably paid way too much for those shitty seats”). But as Danny pointed out, Billy’s laid-back attitude is carefully constructed, just like his songs. In numbers like the epic...
...Lumpur, the niceties of an English high tea are just as much of a staple as a piping-hot satay. The Cameron Highlands, or the Camerons as locals refer to them, are dotted with tea plantations, strawberry fields, vegetable farms, villages and - as implausible as it sounds - English-style mock-Tudor hotels standing incongruously amid the jungle. Read "One Night in Kuala Lumpur...