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...emigrate. "No country needs a sugar-cane cutter," Connew says, but other countries might want the cane cutter's accountant daughter or engineer son. Even in the holidays, Dharmen expects his sons to toil at maths and English; once they leave Fiji, Connew writes, they will "reach back to extract their parents...
...This week, Kim seems to be playing the same game all over again, attempting to extract far more than was promised in exchange for reining in his nuclear program. On Monday, Chief U.S. envoy Christopher Hill announced after meetings with his counterpart Kim Kae Gwan in Geneva that North Korea had agreed to dismantle its entire nuclear apparatus by the end of the year. Hill said that it was the "first time" North Korea had put such a timetable on its commitment to stand down its entire nuclear program. (And indeed, precisely when the North would...
...only a matter of time until some attentive reality producer figured out a way to remove all the bothersome competence from Idol and isolate an extract of 99.44% pure bad karaoke. Enter The Singing Bee on NBC and Fox's knockoff, Don't Forget the Lyrics, the No. 1-- and No. 2--rated new shows of the summer...
...second process seen on the popular CSI television shows, but can take hours of downloading, followed by days and weeks of software development, but the results can be revealing. "You get a fingerprint of who the person is," says Harrington. Recently, Dutch forensics experts were able to extract vital information via hex dump from the remains of a phone, shattered and soaked in blood and water. "Let's talk about hex!" is the slogan on phone-forensics.com, a popular online forum where the code breakers chat...
...Iran recognizes that Washington is under increasing domestic pressure to extract itself from the Iraq quagmire, which would be hard to achieve without Iranian cooperation in stabilizing the country. But Iran is unlikely to help the U.S. in the absence of any quid pro quo on a range of other issues. It could be argued that as long as they fear the possibility of U.S. military action against them, they're a lot more comfortable with the U.S. bogged down and vulnerable in Iraq. And even if both sides move toward a diplomatic rapprochement, the Iranians are unlikely to treat...