"Push the Button" is a song by the English girl group the Sugababes, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album Taller in More Ways (2005). Composed by Dallas Austin and the Sugababes as an electropop and R&B song with various computer effects, it was inspired by an infatuation that one of them (Keisha Buchanan) developed for another artist. Critics praised the song's conception and production, and some of them named it one of the best pop singles of the 2000s. The song became one of the group's most commercially successful releases, peaking at number one in Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and reaching the top five across Europe and in Australia. It was nominated for Best British Single at the 2006 Brit Awards. Matthew Rolston directed the song's music video, which was filmed in Shepherd's Bush, London; it features the Sugababes flirting with three men in a lift. The group performed the single at Oxegen 2008, V Festival 2008, and other festivals and events. "Push the Button" appears on the soundtrack to It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006). (Full article...)
A side-by-side comparison of the Aral Sea in 1989 and 2008, showing its severe shrinkage owing to poor water resource management. The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. However, the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet-era irrigation projects. It had shrunk to 10% of its former size by 2007, and is still shrinking. The near-loss of the Aral Sea, which is now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, has been considered one of the planet's most disastrous examples of poor environmental resource management.
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