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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...yourselfers can pay $14.95 per day, which is good for a party.) The site is the brainchild of Alexandre Taillefer, a fellow entrepreneur, who, not too long ago, got into the karaoke biz after hosting a sing-along party at his home with a bunch of rented high-end sound equipment. "It was a cumbersome project," he admitted. But it was fun: "We ended up going to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning, which is quite unusual for me and my friends." In case it wasn't obvious, Taillefer is Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Recession with My Own Karaoke Bar | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...Washington provides the opportunity for a new era of transatlantic relations, at a speech at the Center for European Studies yesterday. Repeating phrases like “you and us,” Lamassoure’s words were carefully calibrated to make the United States and Europe sound close together, particularly in the event of a victory next week by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. “If Europe were entitled to vote in your election, 93 percent would vote in favor of one candidate,” said Lamassoure, a former French minister of European affairs...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.S., EU Relations Touted | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running until four hours after the market closed. The following day, President Herbert Hoover went on the radio to reassure the American people, saying "The fundamental business of the country...is on a sound and prosperous basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash of 1929 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...might sound like good news that so much opium has disappeared from the world drug market, but Costa believes the missing opium is a potential time bomb, and many law-enforcement officials agree. That's because the Taliban is believed to be "stockpiling to control the prices," says a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, who confirmed that NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium? And If So, Why? | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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