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...public demonstration on the eve of the G-8 conference in Scotland. The idea is to pressure G-8 participants to help reduce poverty in Africa. But this time Geldof's monster may be out of control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored anyone who could to skip school or work to go to Edinburgh (70 km from the G-8 meeting) on July 6. A headline the next day in the Edinburgh Evening News read "URE GOING TO CAUSE CHAOS," echoing the alarm of local authorities, who may be unprepared for such an influx and forced to rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slightly Out Of Tune | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...sucking us ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests we're in denial about the extent of our habit. One in 10 gamers claims to be addicted; 1 in 4 admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets and your new best friends are arrayed around the card table. All that's missing is the free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Playing Games--and Why | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or in the throes of poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined with hiking and jogging trails that make it one of the region's best-kept recreational secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take Me to the River | 5/14/2005 | See Source »

...Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in Continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or extending his poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined with hiking and jogging trails that make it one of the region's best-kept recreational secrets. The 2,850 km-long Danube kicks off in Germany's Black Forest and flows eastward through 10 countries to the Black Sea . Once part of the Roman Empire's border against barbarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take Me to the River | 5/12/2005 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Lithgow will have to miss it for the first time this year—he can’t really afford to skip out as the star of the new Broadway play, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” twice in a month. “It’s simply not done,” he sighs, with the overdone emphasis of an aging movie starlet, but still meaning every ounce of what he says...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Many Faces of John Lithgow | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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