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...absence of a consensus on fighting the militants compounds Zardari's difficulties in tackling the economic crisis he inherited - a crisis that, in turn, threatens to deepen the militant challenge. Rising world oil and food prices have sent the inflation rate soaring to 25% (and as much as four times that on basic foodstuffs), while the political uncertainty over the past 18 months fueled extensive capital flight that has weakened the rupee and depleted forex reserves. A failure to increase the capacity of electricity production now plunges Pakistan's main cities into darkness for up to ten hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time and Money Running Out for Pakistan | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...while AC/DC hasn’t undergone any significant reinvention, they demonstrate throughout that they don’t need to. Even 33 years in the making, rock ’n’ roll ain’t noise pollution, and AC/DC is still the place to turn. For those about to rock, we salute...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AC/DC | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...chopped n skrewed!” Or not. Even in going along with Teddy’s abstract video, some parts just make you say: why? Why is there an elephant with headphones and a chain onscreen throughout Luda’s verse? Why did T-Pain randomly turn into a pimp lion? And why did he feel it was necessary to pop and lock at the end of his video and not even do it right? The world is full of mysteries...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: T-Pain | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Madagascar. The government is dedicated to tripling the size of its national park system, which directly supports the economic livelihood of the people who live near them - in Madagascar, the government shares half the revenue from parks with local communities. That revenue, of course, depends on ecotourism, which in turn depends on the conservation of wildlife - if there are no more lemurs left to see, then no one will come to see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Ways to Find an Authentic Ecotour | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish migration took a definitive turn in the late 1980s, when the Irish diaspora started to come home. Maebh Walsh was one of those who returned. The 49-year-old designer decided to move back to Dublin after years living in Arizona. Walsh says living abroad for so long caused her family to return "more aware of our background and our 'Irishness.' So when we came back in 1988 and had children, we wanted them to have our culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Language Dilemma | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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