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...Korea announced that it would reactivate its Yongbyon nuclear plant. The nation began dismantling the complex last year but reversed its stance in August when the U.S. failed to remove North Korea from an official terrorism list. Meanwhile, speculation continues over the health of leader Kim Jong-Il, still absent from public events...
Outside groups spent more than $550 million on the presidential election in 2004, a total that could be eclipsed this time around, though the money has become even harder to track. That's because many of the donors funding guerrilla campaigns absent any coordination with the candidates have opted to avoid so-called 527 groups, which require full disclosure of donors. Instead, they are using more established nonprofits, like 501(c)(4)s, to find loopholes in the law. "It brings everything off the books," explains Will Evans, who is tracking outside spending at the Center for Investigative Reporting...
...will also allow users to run multiple applications at once and more easily share contacts and data among them. And if reports from developers interviewed by TIME prove true, mobile-phone users will finally be able to cut and paste text in e-mails - a function that's frustratingly absent on the iPhone. The Dream, which is expected to go on sale in late October, will reportedly cost the same...
...There is a quality to this book that is often absent from the contemporary novel. Let's call it grace...
...approval rating sank to 3% in the war's aftermath and remained in the single digits. At an exhibition hall in Tel Aviv rented by Kadima on election night to handle the media and party faithful - and where press outnumbered supporters 3 to 1 - Olmert's portrait was conspicuously absent, much the way that U.S. President George W. Bush was relegated to near invisibility at the Republican Convention...