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...Will North Korea eventually give up those facilities as the U.S. and others insist? To answer that, we need to ask why the North developed and secured nuclear weapons, over several decades, at such a high cost and risk. There are a number of reasons. First, nuclear status is a political trophy for Kim Jong Il. From senior party members down to young children, North Koreans have boasted to recent visitors that Kim's great feat of testing a nuclear bomb last October has enabled their country to stand as an equal with the big powers. Second, the nuclear program...
...unwilling to accept Islam as an element of its identity. "All these states had trouble balancing religion with secularism long before Sept. 11," she says. "So you have to ask, Why now? What is European and what is not?" That's a question Sauer and other researchers hope to answer with the veil project, a three-year study of head-scarf policies in eight countries - including Britain, France and Turkey - funded by the European Commission...
...every filmmaker's dream, really," says Hertzfeldt, whose 17-min. movie is playing at the Animation Show, a festival touring the U.S. "Produce your own stories, work largely alone and answer to nobody." Ari Sandel, who's nominated for West Bank Story, his film-school master's thesis, puts its appeal another way: "Look, if it's bad, it's over in 10 minutes...
Evidence-based medicine, which uses volumes of studies and show-me skepticism to answer such questions, is now being taught--with varying degrees of success--at every medical school in North America. It has been extraordinarily successful in shooting down some of the most cherished beliefs in health care, like the idea that long-term hormone-replacement therapy would help prevent heart disease in women. And it has clearly saved lives. Many doctors used to give anti-arrhythmia drugs to everyone who experienced irregular heartbeats after a heart attack because severely irregular beats could rapidly prove fatal. But then came...
...British Parliament member Francis Urquhart on British TV's satirical cult hit House of Cards; of unknown causes; in London. As an oily politician, he created a catchphrase used for reporters and others--and jokingly cited by real-life leaders worldwide. "You may very well say that," he would answer an inquisitor before quickly adding, "I couldn't possibly comment...