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...board runs. Their latest single, "Love Addict," epitomizes the sound with its barrage of power chords, senseless lyrics and throbbing drums. Barring a couple of diversions - the chart-friendly, emo paean "Evanescent," the wistful ballad "Sweet Dreams" - the album sticks to this no-frills template, which is no bad thing. All the hallmarks of classic J-rock are here, but amped up and hardened for a more streetwise generation...
...rather than overturn it. Now the art of protest is undergoing a revolution (another French tradition) as a small group of social activists uses creativity, humor and media savvy to draw the kind of attention it once took millions of marchers to muster. And here's the really radical thing: France's youthful demonstrators aren't just winning support for their various causes - they're challenging the very social and economic pact that has defined the country for the past 60 years...
...learn from them? A Washington Post correspondent with a nagging shoulder injury from his Navy days, Reid traveled the world to see how other countries' health-care systems would treat him. From Germany to Canada to Taiwan, he finds several different models for success, all with one thing in common. When considering whether a government has a moral obligation to provide access to health care for all its citizens, Reid notes, "every developed country except the United States has reached the same conclusion...
...into that calculation: everything from the property-tax rate to mortgage closing costs to the money spent on homeowner's insurance to the yearly home-price appreciation. If prices stay flat instead of going up 2% a year, it'll take nine years for buying to pay off. One thing not taken into account - which should be - is how you might invest your down payment if not in a house and what return you'd see. (See 10 financial moves to make...
...same time, there are parts of nonhomeownership he misses. Renting allowed him to live in much nicer neighborhoods than he could have afforded otherwise; his view from the El Dorado hills is a thing of the past. He's also back to bearing the brunt of all things homeowner-related, like mowing the lawn on a sweaty Sacramento summer...