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...partnership will budge Pyongyang is an open question. The current bottleneck in negotiations is over an American demand that Pyongyang fully reveals all of its nuclear facilities, as well as acts of proliferation of nuclear know-how (including a suspected instance involving Syria). But the tide may turn in favor of the allies: after growing slightly for seven years, the North Korean economy contracted by 1.1% in 2006, according to South Korea's central bank, and a bad harvest has worsened chronic food shortages, say North Korea watchers. Lee has pledged to maintain humanitarian aid to the North...
...weekend of May. On the Friday prior, floats process to Asakusa Shrine, a Shinto place of worship close by Sensoji, for the binzasara no mai, or "harvest dance." The mikoshi parade comes the following day. Locals say that the more a shrine sways and shakes, the greater the gods' favor. The festival ends on Sunday, usually with a parade of the three mikoshi belonging to the local shrine. But because revelers became so rowdy last year - climbing on to the structures during the procession - for safety reasons the three mikoshi won't be going anywhere in 2008, and organizers...
...share senator Clinton's disbelief over Democratic officials' suspending their own judgment in favor of their children's enthusiastic support for Obama. Young people are enthusiastic about fast cars and loud music too, but that is no reason to embrace them. If Obama can't withstand the scrutiny of the Clinton campaign, what chance does he have against the Republicans? Ann Gardner, Dover, Delaware...
This is not a tale of bureaucratic bungling. It's just evidence that compiling a reliable measure of all the economic activity in a country as big as this one is hard. Which is something to consider whenever you hear somebody arguing that GDP ought to be shelved in favor of some more holistic measure of economic well-being. Somebody like, say, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who early this year appointed a high-powered task force--boasting not just one but two economics Nobelists, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz--to devise a GDP replacement. Similar "ditch-GDP" noises...
Having a baby will certainly change your life. But it doesn't have to change your décor. The newest trend in children's furniture does away with pastel hues and cartoon characters in favor of bold colors and clean lines that fit right in with the modern aesthetic that defines today's interior design...