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...intense negotiations at a secluded guesthouse in Beijing, officials from each of the participating countries?China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S.?expressed their satisfaction with a process the chief achievement of which was to have avoided falling apart entirely. "There was no breakdown but no breakthrough," says Lee Chung Min, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. "It was another round of shadow boxing...
...rule for several months. Tsvangirai denies charges of plotting to murder President Robert Mugabe and says the government fabricated the allegations to discredit him. Better Than Nothing NORTH KOREA The second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended in Beijing without a major breakthrough, although Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement saying that all parties had committed themselves to "a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula" and agreed to meet again before July...
...seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Nevertheless, the Academy will likely see beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship...
...seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Nevertheless, the Academy will likely see beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship...
...things stand, all the benefits of stem cells will probably be developed--as this latest breakthrough was--outside the U.S. "I'm not really surprised it came from Korea," says Goldstein, citing the researchers' skill and experience. "I'm disappointed it didn't happen first in the U.S. But given the absolute stranglehold that federal policy has put on this field, that doesn't surprise me either...