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...into a wall of silence?which 16 years later, the still grieving father hoped would finally crumble when President Kim Dae Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, South Korea's authoritarian governments regularly violated human rights in the name of protecting South Korea from...
...business expense and lower its assumed pension-plan rate of return to 8% from 9.5%. Citi still faces as much as $10 billion in potential costs stemming from settlements, fines and shareholder lawsuits, Mayo estimates. At the same time, the bank is dealing with souring investments in Argentina and Brazil and is under a cloud for lending practices in the Caribbean. This should have been Weill's year. Citi's booming earnings have put it on track to unseat ExxonMobil as the most profitable corporation in the world. Fortune named Citi one of the world's most admired companies...
...song," says El Pa?s' López. "Like shorts, sandals and bikinis, they disappear without trace once summer is over." Did anyone tell the fans? It's autumn now, and they're still buying the music. This month, the girls will tour the Americas - Asereje is No. 1 in Argentina, Mexico and Puerto Rico - and release their album in Britain. Later this year, Las Ketchup will try to prove that they're not just a one-hit wonder with a second single, Kusha las Payas. The song, which they wrote themselves, is only slightly more comprehensible than Asereje; kusha...
...Numbers 17,934 Japanese will be more than 100 years old this year, an increase of about 2,500 from last year, according to a government survey 3 fatal heart attacks were attributed to Yugoslavia's cliffhanger overtime victory over Argentina in the World Basketball Championships 77 people were arrested and 32 injured during celebrations in Belgrade after Yugoslavia's victory $18,000 is how much it costs to have a proper wedding in Shanghai, or eight years' salary for the average urban worker, according to China Daily $6.4 billion is how much money police say eight suspects laundered...
Bioengineering has tremendous potential in the developing world. The U.S., Canada, China and Argentina contain 99% of the global area of genetically modified crops, whereas yields of sorghum and millet in sub-Saharan Africa have not increased since the 1960s. Green groups hoping to earn the trust of the developing world should lobby hard for the resources of Big Agriculture to be plowed into discovering crop varieties that can handle drought and thrive on small-scale farms...