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...another thought, what a great relief it would be to end his or her own life - but for the most part, we want to live. ... In my book I show in many different settings how beautiful things could get, and how quickly, if we weren't around - how things revert to wilderness, almost like the Garden of Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Humans | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers, Koh Yu Hwan of Seoul's Dongguk University, says Kim has "already decided that grand bargain" - nukes for economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prying Open Pyongyang | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...this claim. A 1999 study in the Journal of Business found that the boycott had almost no impact on financial markets or corporations in South Africa. In addition, global capital markets are significantly more liquid than they were in the 1980s, so even short-term effects of divestment will revert more quickly...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Forget About Divestment | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...individual identities of Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen, it’s possible to see the same lovely face on more magazine covers than ever before. Hopefully, they’ll be successful enough in maintaining distinctive lives that they won’t have to revert back to exploiting their sisterhood. 2. The Rolling Stones Rumors have been circulation about another tour in ’08. Nothing’s been officially confirmed yet, and with any luck, Mick Jagger will stop trying to prove that he’s aged gracefully. 1. The Messiah It?...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beryl C.D. Lipton | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...despite all its newfound diplomatic adroitness, on a few sensitive issues the Beijing government seems to revert instinctively to its Maoist-era default mode. Last week China gave the world a series of demonstrations of that, in relation to two especially sensitive issues, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Kitty Hawk Problem | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

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