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...wheel because of lack of sleep has killed innocent drivers. Why do we feel the need to be constantly doing something? To pump up our self-esteem? I'm with William Shakespeare, who referred to "sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care." Robin Francis Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan...
...Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country where private property is ideological anathema. "You can buy anything and everything in the market," says Park, a trader who sells televisions she brings in from China. (Like all North Koreans that TIME talked to for this story, Park spoke on condition that her real name not be used.) "Everybody wants to be in business...
...risk for Kim Jong Il is that citizens with new access to radios and VCRs are learning that their miserable status is not inevitable. "Now people's minds are more open," says Park, the television trader. "They are all demanding better living standards." Dragging a color TV from China to sell in a Korean market may not be the way that revolutions normally start. But such flickers of enterprise may yet light a fire that could consume the regime. --By Donald Macintyre/ Seoul
...article on www.norway.org, “Norway: the official site in the United States.” The single “Misread” overtook European MTV last summer, with its low-key unplugged melancholy and crisp, autumnal video of the band relaxing and playing music in a park, and the album was filled with a similar mellow, familiar sound—the scuffling of fingers along guitar strings, richness of cello and violin, and gentle vocals. While the Paradise Rock Club, the band’s second stop on this tour, is relatively intimate, the band will have...
...negative effects of aggressive expansion into foreign markets. “It took us a while to figure out that Euro Disney wasn’t doing so well in France because people drink wine in that country, and we didn’t allow any alcohol in the park,” said Mia Rondinella, a Disney representative...