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...pretty boring: I subscribe to an online newsfeed about all things Beck. A month ago, an intern for MTV’s college-oriented offshoot, mtvU, distributes a solicitation that made its way to the feed: the network was looking for a college kid to interview Beck. I submitted my information and 15 potential questions for the interview, and a week and a half later, I get a call telling me I’ve won. I’m headed to Times Square to do an interview with Beck...
...nuclear weapon. The international community has acted quickly to address the mounting security crisis; on Oct. 14, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution imposing sanctions aimed at keeping certain weapons, nuclear material, and luxury goods from entering North Korea. The Security Council resolution reveals an interesting offshoot of North Korea’s dangerous, antagonistic behavior: the cooperation of China. Due to its veto power, Chinese support was necessary for any Security Council resolution. And in this case, they provided it. China’s support of the Security Council sanctions is a good first step. The question...
...products that used to be dirt cheap, free or off-loaded with a cash kicker--such things as tire chips and crumb rubber, organic waste, even restaurant grease. "Resource recovery is a dynamic industry right now," says Lou Zicari, associate director of the Center for Integrated Waste Management, an offshoot of the State University of New York. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 72 million tons of waste were recovered in the U.S. in 1999, up from 63.9 million tons just four years before 1999, thanks to rising trash piles and recycling rates. And the phenomenon is fairly recent. "Most...
...plastic explosives and other munitions acquired from the Iraqi military after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite Turkish authorities' claims, the p.k.k. denies involvement in the bombings at the seaside towns of Antalya and Marmaris. Another Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (t.a.k.), has claimed responsibility. Considered a p.k.k. offshoot, the t.a.k. boasted in a written statement that "we have promised to turn monstrous Turkey into hell," with "more actions, bigger blows." Aydar told Time last week that the p.k.k. and t.a.k. differ in their underlying philosophies and do not collaborate on operations: "We are not responsible for what they...
DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...