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...sucker for the melancholy. I guess that's one of the things, coming from this place. If you listen to ABBA and Ace of Base, it's always sort of melancholy. I love the stuff Sting does, because he also has that feeling in his music. I actually think it's easier to write a beautiful melody in minor than in major. A happy song is great, but I think the songs you remember are when you're sad. It's not that I'm a sad person. Not at all. That's just my taste in music. There...
...Just listen to what Asians have to say about their sex lives. TIME has done just that in a survey on Asian sexual behavior. Thais like to be spanked - some 37% of men surveyed and 34% of women. Singaporean women initiate sex more than other Asian women. Virgins are an endangered Asian species almost everywhere except the Philippines, where 78% of the men say they want to marry...
...Backlashes are all but inevitable, especially from the preceding generations who feel like they've missed out and from politicians ranting about Western cultural imperialism. They don't get it. If anything, new attitudes toward sex have coincided, and melded, with greater openness in Asia across the board. Listen to Ng Man-lun, vice president of the Hong Kong Sex Education Association: "We have accepted that other aspects of life should enjoy freedom, whether it's political or academic. We can't isolate sexual freedom." Not all Asian countries enjoy Hong Kong's level of political freedom, but some...
Stevens, however, thinks he knows what finally unleashed Andy. "He was pushed to the edge," he says. "Listen to In the End, track eight on Linkin Park's CD. That was the song that inspired Andy." The metal hip-hop hybrid screams alienated angst: "In spite of the way you were mocking me/ Acting like I was part of your property/ Remembering all the times you fought with me/ I'm surprised...
...fact of his own death. Most people are not disabled by the thought; they are able to forget about it, on most days. We pretend we are immortal. And of course, we are--for the moment. People with a history of heart attacks, like me and Cheney, do, however, listen to the engine more carefully than most drivers. We cock an ear inward...