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...bomb exploded fifty miles from my base. At first, we had no idea of what had caused the terrific shock and the awesome drone. We refused to accept the fact that Japan was barely hanging on, and pretending to be unshaken by the bomb, we went about our tasks with as much zeal as before...
Academically, SSP provides more of a collegiate experience than most other institutions’ summer school programs—colleges, including Harvard College, will accept most of the courses for credit...
...week, when six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear program are expected to reconvene in Beijing after a 13-month hiatus. Nobody is sure if it's the South Korean offer that has brought the North back to the bargaining table; nor is it certain that Kim will accept a deal that could effectively give Seoul the power to turn off the lights in Pyongyang. More important, nobody knows if Kim has decided to come back to the table to negotiate away his nukes, or to extract more concessions and sidestep the risk of sanctions if he hangs...
...contribution of the Communist Party to Chinese culture is an organized platform that has the ability to enforce opinions. For millenniums, Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength, but if threatened, will retaliate with even greater strength. They will not accept help or surrender their values. David Cherbonnier Singapore...
...years ago that rats chirp in laughter, albeit in response to tickling, and in a register too high for the human ear to detect.) Nobody has yet found the neurocircuits for ethics or morality, however, so Panksepp is reluctant to comment about those qualities. But he does accept that some animals have strict rules of behavior. "Cockroaches probably don't have a sense of justice," says Panksepp. But dogs and rats, which are social animals, clearly...