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...Just as intriguing is the sudden burst of sunshine out of Pyongyang diplomats?the normally reclusive North Koreans are now clamoring to talk to Seoul, Tokyo and Washington all at once. Senior North Korean government officials are scheduled to travel to Seoul this week for ministerial-level talks, the first such tete-a-tete in nine months. Says Yim Sung Joon, a senior advisor to South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung: "This is a very important moment for the two Koreas...
...posher gated communities. A plaintive "where are you?" cry from within the bush is answered by a chorus of "checking," followed by individual shouts of "chalk" and "flour." Moments later a triumphant "on on!" rings out, a bugle sounds the battle charge, and the runners, dripping with sweat, burst from the underbrush. Casually slinging quips, jokes and benign insults with the easy camaraderie of old acquaintances, the 30-large herd mills around a clearing, in search of the next sign marked by chalk or flour to show where...
Jack Girvan, a college-funding adviser in Hyannis, Mass., recounts how a couple burst into tears in his office last week after telling their daughter that she would have to transfer from St. Mary's, a private college in Maryland, to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (not to be confused with private Amherst College). "She was devastated," Girvan says. But the family had few alternatives after its savings in stocks designated for her remaining education and that of two siblings dropped from...
...days earlier this month residents in the tiny Italian Alpine village of Macugnaga (pop. 700) were under threat. A giant lake had formed atop a glacier on Monte Rosa, and authorities worried that the water would burst its banks - or worse, that the glacier itself would become dislodged, sending a river of ice, mud, rock and debris crashing down the mountainside and into Macugnaga situated below. Disaster was averted thanks to cooler temperatures and frantic efforts to pump water out of the lake. But for Andreas Kääb, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, the Macugnaga incident...
...more clues--by showing how well the arteries are supplying blood to various parts of the heart. But here again, small blockages may not trigger any symptoms. Even the gold standard for detecting fatty deposits, an invasive procedure called angiography, can't tell you which plaques are likely to burst--though doctors are starting to experiment with new imaging techniques that may do the trick...