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...working week intervenes. But the traffic jams that hit early Monday afternoon as commuters emptied the city were a sign that people knew something more serious was going on. That night saw the third successive outbreak of serious rioting in Protestant neighborhoods, violence that has caused another dip in Northern Ireland's roller coaster peace process...
...compulsory for South Korean men in their late teens or 20s to serve at least two years in the military, and it's not a lot of fun. The discipline can be intense: earlier this year, a whistle-blower accused a captain of ordering his troops to dip their fingers into a dirty toilet bowl and then stick them in their mouths. In June, a young conscript stationed near the DMZ allegedly threw a live grenade into a tent full of sleeping comrades and sprayed it with his K-1 semiautomatic, killing eight. It's still unclear what caused...
...bottles of wine is tainted--or "corked," in the oenophile's argot--making it smell musty and taste bitter. Now French scientists have come up with a kit called Dream Taste. You dip a copolymer shaped like a bunch of grapes into the wine, where it absorbs the flavor-spoiling molecules...
Perhaps therein also lies the answer to why Jack's ratings in many cities dip after its first two months. It soon dawns on the Gen Xers that their cool, eclectic music collection is actually the new American songbook, just as their snarky cynicism is the generic spawn of David Letterman. Worse yet, the big news being hidden behind Jack's robotic wall of attitude is this: Jack is the new oldies. Therefore, we all must be getting...
Then, there’s caring for the station, their home. Every morning they clean the toilets and check their equipment, and on off-days they dip into their wallets or neighbors’ front yards for treadmills and televisions...