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...this coming," a usually very well-informed intelligence source in east Asia told TIME today. The magnitude of the explosion in North Hamgyong Province, in the northeastern part of the country, near the Chinese and Russian borders, was four times greater than that of the last test, in the autumn of 2006, analysts in Seoul said. North Korea's KCNA news agency said the blast showed that "both the explosive power and technical control have increased," and the intelligence source didn't disagree with that assessment. The test came less than two months after North Korea launched a long-range...
...Almost lost amidst all the headlines about crisis aid to the automakers, the U.S. Department of Energy is now preparing to release $25 billion in loans appropriated last autumn to speed up the transition to more fuel efficient vehicles. The cash is supposed to be used for specific projects that increase fuel economy. Ford, for example, has applied to use some of the federal cash to convert an assembly plant in suburban Detroit from building trucks to building small cars and electric vehicles. The project costs $550 million and Ford hopes to use some of the DOE cash. GM, Chrysler...
...what's left to do? For the most part, scramble for childcare arrangements and surf the Internet for information. "I Googled 'CHD swine flu' to see if something came up," says Autumn Rose Reo, 28, whose 10-month-old son has congenital heart disease. Reo quickly found links to official public health sites and old-fashioned good advice from moms and dads of CHD children who had dealt with flu outbreaks in the past...
...Rattner] has the advantage of being an active and willing social climber but not being sleazy. He is very smooth." - Michael Wolff, in an excerpt from his book Autumn of the Moguls, ( New York...
...Germans sink into a period of national soul-searching. "Let's not kid ourselves, we're in the middle of a tough crisis, but we've now got a very good stimulus plan," Zu Guttenberg told Germany's Bild newspaper recently. "We expect the economy will pick up this autumn, at the very latest." The next few days will decide whether Opel will be part of that resurgence...