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...partly because of the diplomatic gridlock, a new crisis is looming. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently warned that North Korea, a country where U.N. agencies estimate that more than a third of young children are chronically malnourished, could be on the brink of another deadly food shortage. Food aid has propped up the North since the mid-1990s, when famine killed between 1 million and 3 million people. But major contributors, including the U.S. and Japan, are reluctant to keep feeding North Korea while Kim refuses to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. The WFP is trying to provide...
...reform is widely assumed to be dead. The war in Iraq is stymied and losing public support. There is talk that Bush has squandered the goodwill he earned by winning re-election, that the Democrats' sapping obstructionist strategy has weakened him. There is talk that he is on the brink of becoming a lame duck...
Back from the 2003 team that pushed No. 3 seed Kansas State to the brink of defeat in the first round of the NCAA tournament was every starter—including Hana Peljto ’04, the two-time Player of the Year...
While campaigning for the title, Mercyhurst had Harvard on the brink of elimination in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Corriero rose to the occasion, scoring four of Harvard’s five goals—including the game-tying goal to force overtime—as well as assisting on the final game-winner in triple-overtime...
Despite the weight of tradition, the first-year experience—one of the longest and most closely guarded rites of College passage—is on the brink of change...