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...entity that now spans more than 50 countries. The company maintains the "Tetris guidelines"-a set of basic standards to which all officially branded games must adhere. These rules stipulate everything from the colors of the blocks to a mandatory inclusion of the game's now famous theme song, the Russian folk tune "Korobeiniki." Tetris is now ubiquitous: it's the best selling cell-phone game and one of the top 10 iPhone apps of all time, and has even inspired wacky Japanese game shows. In 2007, video-game website IGN named it the second best game of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

When the American GIs arrived they were astonished to find more than 900 children still alive, and the youngest was just three years old. And I'm told that a couple of the prisoners even wrote a Buchenwald song that many here sang. Among the lyrics were these: "...whatever our fate, we will say yes to life, for the day will come when we are free...in our blood we carry the will to live and in our hearts, in our hearts - faith." These individuals never could have known the world would one day speak of this place. They could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remarks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...joined a 100,000-strong crowd for the city's annual act of remembrance, the June 4 vigil in Victoria Park. Sitting in orderly rows and lit by the surrounding skyscrapers, people clutched small, white candles and cheered and clapped their way through a program filled with speeches and song. Families sat on blankets, their snacks laid out on paper plates. Old men stood, chatting, occasionally raising their fists in the air. In the middle of it all stood a miniature replica of a familiar statue, the Goddess of Democracy, which Chinese art students had built - and soldiers later toppled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While Beijing Stays Silent, Hong Kong Remembers Tiananmen | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Disney for a Song. Through June 30, the Palisades Resort in Orlando, Fla., is offering two nights free, for three nights booked, plus free breakfast, parking and shuttle transportation to Disney World, just seven miles away. Rates for a two-bedroom suite with kitchen start at $415 (making that a daily rate of $83 for the five nights). Or, book a one-bedroom suite starting from $79 per night. 14200 Avalon Road, Orlando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Travel: Hotels for Under $100 | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...others may be embarrassing for some, Wong and her colleagues have been doing it since they were kids. They feel more comfortable singing about some topics, like love, than talking about them. In fact, Wong's only beef with K Lunch is that she can't sing every song. "It's like playing mah-jongg [a popular Asian game played with tiles]," she says. "You can't win all the time. Sometimes, you have to pass the mike to someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Workers Swoon over Lunchtime Karaoke | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

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