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Legendary skateboard champ Tony Hawk helped turn a California street sport into a global phenomenon. Now 36, Hawk is also a successful businessman, having built an action-sports empire that encompasses best-selling video games, DVDS, equipment, apparel and an arena tour called Boom Boom HuckJam. Hawk spoke with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner from the Cayman Islands, where he performed at the opening of Black Pearl, the world's largest concrete skate park...
Development economists have called this phenomenon “the natural resource endowment paradox,” which holds that developing nations with the greatest endowments of natural resources frequently develop more slowly and unsuccessfully than similar nations with less natural wealth. These are also the countries with the most corrupt government and the least civil liberties. There are a number of theories as to why this is so, but the consequence is clear: with the exception of Norway, almost every oil-rich country is “shady” in some...
Harvard baseball captain Schuyler Mann recently gave me the low-down on the phenomenon...
...Iljin gangs are typically part extortion ring and part social club, according to Jong, who interviewed more than 200 teens over five years to prepare his independent study of the phenomenon. Senior gang members use younger iljin to intimidate still younger children into giving them money to finance dates and rowdy, beer-fueled parties. Jong, who teaches at Jeon Nong high school in Seoul, says gang members use the Internet to organize regional and even national networks. One favorite pastime: the so-called "fainting game," in which kids derive an oxygen-deprivation rush from strangling each other until they nearly...
...might, then, assume that VJs do pretty much the same thing. VJs are a recent phenomenon, a disparate group of alternative artists who edit visual images...