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Customers looking for delicacies beyond the signature lukewarm slice can now find an unnervingly violent host of new offerings, including “regent bull,” “chicken bomb,” and “New England clam chowder.” Très chic...
...opening night a woman told Miller his play was "a time bomb under American capitalism," and he hoped she was right. But if it were just a matter of politics (Miller was at the time a committed Stalinist sympathizer), the play would not have lasted. His protagonist, Willy Loman, however, is an Everyman, someone who heedlessly believes all the lies that are fed to us--the ones about success and self-realization, the ones about consumerism, the ones about the necessity of being, as he puts it, "well liked." At the time, the fancier critics thought Willy lacked the noble...
...them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead." SHINTARO ISHIHARA, governor of Tokyo, responding to the statement by North Korea...
...allies can coax Pyongyang back into negotiations--a big if--their hand is weakened by what the declaration described as Kim's "arsenal." At a time when the Bush Administration is trying to increase pressure on Iran over its purported ambitions to obtain the bomb, Washington confronts a more immediate crisis with a country that claims to have it already...
...weeks ago, the White House secretly dispatched two National Security Council (NSC) aides to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul armed with evidence that North Korea may have supplied a uranium compound to Libya for its weapons labs. The gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence differs from...