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...Tumen river divides North Korea and China along more than 500 km, rushing through broad valleys dotted with ramshackle farming villages and soaring mountain slopes of pine, fir and birch. In some places it pinches into a stream so narrow you can toss a stone to the other bank or wade across, at least before the summer rains start. Kim Kyung Sun has been back and forth so many times he has lost count. Last week he crossed into China from the North Korean side once again?he hopes for the last time...
...near-autonomous 1,000-year-old system of government. (To the Manx, Britain is not the mainland; the island is the mainland, and Britain is obliquely referred to as "across," as in "What's the weather like across?") True, this separateness has encouraged only slow social change: birching, or beating with a birch rod, for crimes of violence against a person was still going strong in the 1970s, homosexuality was not legalized until 1992 and abortion has been permitted for mothers at risk only since 1995. Crime levels belong to '50s Britain, and even a minor mugging will make...
...interests of his family, who find it difficult to accept that he would take his own life. Kerstin's relatives, however, are frustrated by what they see as "bureaucratic anarchy." She is jailed, they feel, because of undue pressure from New Zealand politicians, including former Finance Minister Bill Birch-who represented the Camerons' district of Port Waikato, south of Auckland, in Parliament-and former Foreign Minister Don McKinnon, now the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth...
Similarly, Podmore even manages to breathe some new life into the old complaint of postmodern isolation. She takes a teddy bear that has only eyes and ears, sews room for Level Best human arms and legs and sticks this figure on a branch of a birch tree set in a line of darker trees. The result is a poignant, even wrenching, display of innocence alone in a cold environment. Podmore's work doesn't actively attempt to be theoretical and, as a result, is not overbearing like everything else in the exhibit...
...Debbie Flintoff-King. And then an eternity it really seemed, as the flaming cauldron wobbled above Freeman's head, stopped, then began its agonizingly slow crawl up the 70-meter waterfall. A small engineering problem had caused "some extraordinary adrenaline rushes" among the organizers, said master of ceremonies Ric Birch. But by evening's end, the ring of fire was in place, and with it burned all the promise of the 27th Olympiad...