Word: chul
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...final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says Kim. "We were stopped by international society...
...Pilots now shut off one engine while they taxi, saving yet more fuel. And luggage is now loaded farther aft, shifting each plane's center of gravity and helping to keep the nose lifted with less power while flying. "We've got to make these ideas work," says Lee Chul Hyung, head of the fuel-management team. "Fuel costs are gobbling our profits. What could be more serious than that...
...some two dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "Once we used to repeat and explain the same thing over and over again," says Yeom Dong Chul, coach of South Korea's weight-lifting team, which has been using Dartfish in the run-up to the Olympics. "Now there is no need for us to talk so much, since it's all viewable on the screen...
...press last weekend for the first time since getting booted from office in March. An apologetic Roh told Koreans his impeachment was "all the result of my own shortcomings," adding, "I'll try not to disappoint you again." The day before, a vermilion-robed Yun Young Chul, president of the Constitutional Court, ruled that the National Assembly had gone overboard in impeaching Roh for a minor violation of the election law. On two other charges, economic mismanagement and corruption, it ruled that the assembly hadn't proved its case. The court's verdict: Roh gets to remain in the Blue...
...Chul Soo chose to flee without his North Korean sons, daughters and grandchildren. (He insists on using a pseudonym to protect them.) He hopes they can join him one day. But even after returning home after five decades as a prisoner, his family is sundered by a long...