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...faux dodo are older than the University itself.According to Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry, Portuguese and Dutch traders colonized the species’ home island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean starting in 1598.The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder...
...tries "to be in a position where I actually can influence people, and one way to do that is to have personal relationships that, that enable me to sit down and tell people what's on my mind without fear of rupturing relations." In other words, like any subtle diplomat, Bush underplays disagreement and emphasizes consensus when dealing with autocrats...
...conservative faction leaders in Olmert's coalition - Eli Yishai of the Shas Party and Avigdor Lieberman of Yisreal Beitenu, who have warned Olmert that they would bolt if he goes too far on any of the final status issues. It may be unusual for America's top diplomat to court such figures, and risk inflating their sense of their own influence, but she is hoping to ensure that the Annapolis gathering doesn't torpedo Olmert's government. Whether or not her talks succeeded remains to be seen...
...Korea--but about 150 Chinese companies are doing business there. "Once the political situation stabilizes and medium-size enterprises begin to discover North Korea, it will have a dramatic impact," says Alexandre Mansourov, a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu and a former Soviet diplomat in Pyongyang. "I don't see why North Korea should be an exception to the economic miracle in which every country around China is benefiting from Chinese economic growth...
...heavily in two well-known public-private development projects: a resort area at Mount Kumgang and an industrial zone in Kaesong, about six miles (10 km) north of the Demilitarized Zone. There, 13,300 North Korean workers earning $70 a month churn out exports in conditions a former Western diplomat compares to a labor camp's. So far, 15 South Korean companies have opened factories in Kaesong, producing shoes, watches, mufflers and other low-end consumer goods; 150 others have signed...