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...votes of China and Russia on a measure that diplomats say could take a big bite out of North Korea's ability to perfect its long-range missiles and spread that technology to other dangerous states. They swayed the two typically reluctant players by dropping objectionable references to Chapter Seven of the U.N. Charter, which authorizes punishments for threats to "international peace and security" ranging from economic sanctions to military force...
...member states from trading technology and material with North Korea that could be used in missiles or weapons of mass destruction?a key measure sought by the U.S. and Japan. American and Japanese diplomats secured Beijing's vote by toning down their preferred resolution, which would have invoked Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter authorizing the Security Council to respond to "threats to the peace" and "acts of aggression" with anything from economic sanctions to military force. Instead, China permitted the resolution to mention rather less ominously the Council's "special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security...
...traditional medicine. "It was misdiagnosed and misunderstood by Western medicine," says Sekagya, 43. Although he ended up going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy...
...Chapter 61 of Isaiah is an icon for me of what Christian work should be about. That's what Jesus reads in his first public act. In Luke, he walks into the synagogue and reads from Isaiah. It talks about a vision of the reign of God where those who are mourning are comforted, where the hungry are fed, where the poor hear good news...
...also might have reprinted more of her delightful reviews that surface about once a chapter. Unlike her musings on the theater of eating in disguise, they add critical depth to her otherwise perfunctory examination of a foodie’s experiential lifestyle...