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Before you can say "None of the above," the answer, surprisingly, is B. Hermetic, borderline-sociopathic North Korea is going into the high-tech export business?and customers are buying. True, the trade is tiny and all the purchasers are from South Korea. But it's a start for a nation that was on the verge of mass starvation a couple of years ago. And if North Korea is going to make it economically, South Korea is the partner that matters. "We speak the same language and share the same culture," says Park Young Hwa, who is executive vice president...
...island - but as your plane descends you see the reassuring orderliness of small-scale agriculture among lush, tree-covered hills. Air-conditioned buses then take you down narrow, winding roads past fields of sorghum, which is fermented into fiery kaoliang, a clear spirit that is Kinmen's most prized export. The distillery is one of several essential shopping stops...
...great David-and-Goliath story--humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks --but the complexity of the subject matter makes Crypto a slow read: encryption algorithms, export regulations and copyright wrangles, all of it crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don't say we didn't warn you). Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek, has also chosen a difficult hero in Whit Diffie. For all his brilliance, the shy, secretive math geek remains a cipher...
...there is no equal protection for voters, as the Supreme Court ruling showed, why vote? A biased court will decide for you. Is this the democracy the U.S. wants to export to other countries? ADELHEID MEYS The Hague, the Netherlands...
...factors are muddying OPEC's best efforts to manipulate the oil price by controlling the supply. The first is the slowdown in the U.S. economy, which has been the engine of global economic growth over the past two years. That growth, particularly in Asia's export-driven economies, has substantially increased international demand for oil, driving last year's spiraling prices. A sharp slowdown in the world economies could plunge oil prices back into the teens, and make it more difficult for OPEC to maintain the remarkable cohesion and output discipline among its members exhibited in the past two years...