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...South's technological edge. North Korea threatens to test a nuclear weapon on its doorstep; South Korea is a key member of a group of five nations trying to persuade the North to abandon its nukes. Moreover, the impeachment intensifies uncertainty surrounding the April general election seen as crucial to restoring some credibility and stability to the South's government, which has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals. None of this has helped the international standing of South Korea, which suddenly seems more like an uncontrollable adolescent than a responsible player on the world stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Control | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...goal ended up being crucial after Yale’s Kelsey Johnson put one through the net at 19:51 to bring the Elis within one goal, but Dartmouth held on in the final seconds...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 3 Seniors Play Last Home Game for W. Hockey | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...proof of his willingness to be thought insane, Depp's first post-Pirates movie is Secret Window, in theaters this Friday. He plays Mort Rainey, a successful writer being stalked by a psychotic dairy farmer. Before the movie ends, for reasons too crucial to the plot to fully explain, Mort manically consumes the equivalent of Iowa's annual corn harvest. But that's not the crazy part. "Much of the first half of the movie is just Mort in a cabin by himself not doing things," says Secret Window's writer-director, David Koepp, a man you would expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing It Depp's Way | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...difference between the two treatments is crucial because estrogen alone is taken by a lot more women in the U.S. (a total of 5.6 million, if you're counting) than the estrogen-progestin combination (2 million). Since estrogen in the absence of progestin increases a woman's risk of uterine cancer, it's given to women who have had a hysterectomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Estrogen Redux | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...declined into irascibility and then obscurity. What happened to him? A chess master once said, "Chess is not something that drives people mad. Chess is something that keeps mad people sane." Which is to say that genius may lie not only in having a gift but in lacking something crucial as well. Reading these books, one feels grateful for being just a little stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trouble with Genius | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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