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...a.m.Corker slouches on a bench, his beanie over his forehead, quiet. The last band’s tired tunes spark an exodus, and a lone freshman, clutching a bottle, gyrates with the lead singer. Tables soaked in beer await Corker’s scrubbing, but—a few Scorpion Bowls later (it was a good idea!)—FM’s night is done...
...about 4% from this year to 2007. Too few allowances could stifle growth in the new E.U. states, while too many would not motivate investment in cleaner technologies. Meanwhile, some larger countries are dragging their feet. Italy, Poland, Greece and the Czech Republic have submitted national plans that still await European Commission approval...
Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of the iceberg, according to FBI officials keeping tabs on more than 3,000 companies in the U.S. suspected of collecting information for China. A hotbed of activity is Silicon Valley, where the number of Chinese espionage cases handled by the bureau increases...
...called it, was an apt symbol of the scarcity--and supple ingenuity--of Catholics in a region known as the buckle of the Protestant Bible Belt. Soon St. Mark was gaining a family a day. Now its almost 2,800 families hear Mass in a cavernous gymnasium as they await completion of a new church. Among the newcomers is Ben Liuzzo, 54, a financial-services manager who a few years ago moved his family from New York to North Carolina. He had thought Catholics in the area might be as outnumbered as Jews or Muslims--and that the meager church...
...what it truly is: an impoverished, paranoid, deeply misguided dictatorship. Interestingly, accepting North Korea as an established nuclear power may not be a bad idea in that it will give the country some self-respect. As for agreement on the tough issue of a nuclear inspection regime, that must await improvement in Washington-Pyongyang relations. But so long as North Korea does not precipitate a crisis by selling or transferring plutonium or nuclear weapons, there will be plenty of time for relationship building. A journey starts with a single step, and if Bush means what he says about settling...