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...diplomats still hope they can scuttle this launch at the negotiating table. They've done it before. Pyongyang agreed to abandon plans to convert nuclear-reactor fuel into nuclear weaponry when the U.S. and Japan agreed to pay for oil imports and build two new reactors. And South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has embarked on a policy of engagement, offering food and investment from South Korean companies. As thanks, North Korea has sent fishing boats into South Korean waters and provoked a naval clash (Seoul's forces sank one ship), dispatched a suspected spy vessel into Japan...
...overlook such a detail, but Beijing is in no mood to entertain unpredictable guests right now. "The challenge of the Falun Gong cult has rattled Beijing, and the official attitude is that they?ll allow personal freedom of worship, they?re inherently suspicious of proselytizing or attempts to convert people," says TIME correspondent William Dowell...
...history is as close to paradise as conservatives could ever have dreamed. The budget is not just balanced; it is running a surplus so big that it could total $6 trillion over the next 15 years. A Democratic President travels to the poorest corners of the country, such a convert to the miracles of private enterprise that he brings with him not a bushel of federal promises but a bunch of business leaders whom he has deputized to solve the problems of the poor, with maybe a tax break or two as a sweetener. Lawmakers are talking about spending more...
...avoided digital cameras, which bypass film and shoot directly to disc, because the sub-$500 models are sub-snuff in the quality department. That left low-cost scanners (which convert paper photos to digital bits) and Picture CD, a new photo-to-digits service from Kodak and Intel that's being introduced this month...
...executives at the top of the Internet food chain to convert that low-cost enthusiasm and work-is-play lifestyle into publicly traded companies worth millions of dollars. And a number have succeeded: TheGlobe.com's chairman Michael Egan is worth about $200 million; StarMedia CEO Fernando Escuelas, 32, now has a net worth of $256 million. Josh Harris, chairman and founder of Pseudo.com stands to make millions when Pseudo goes public later this year...