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North Korea seems to have taken over the space in America's collective consciousness formerly occupied by the planet Mongo. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Alex Raymond, the distant Mongo, as ruled by the diabolical Ming the Merciless, a jaundiced and slant-eyed despot, perpetually plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable...
...itself. The Nano may seem superficially iPod-esque on the outside, but on the inside it has been completely, painstakingly, exhaustively re-engineered. Older iPods (except for the low-capacity iPod Shuffle) have miniature hard drives in them, but the Nano is built around a chunk of solid-state Flash memory. The screen is all new too. Because it's smaller, the Nano's screen has to be sharper to be readable. (It ended up being so sharp, it shows one line of text more than the Mini's screen does. In color...
...have come too late to help. Then there are the problems in his own camp. Even as Schr?der battles for votes, members of his Cabinet are openly advocating joining a grand coalition with the CDU, while dissidents in his own party are making plans without him. Not even flash floods in southern Germany?Schr?der's deft response to a similar crisis in eastern Germany helped him edge ahead of challenger Edmund Stoiber in 2002?look capable of saving him. "Every well-informed SPD voter knows that they cannot win this election," says Alfons S?llner, a political scientist at the Technical...
Still, it is hard to know when a flash-fire protest in a prairie will turn into something more. Surely it didn't happen when Martin Sheen called (which was on Day 5). Nor did it when the police donned riot gear, as they did on Day 7, when the President's motorcade came within 100 feet of Sheehan's ramshackle encampment. (Riot gear is casual fashion for police at protests these days, after all.) Attendance figures--about 100 by midweek--did not break any records either...
...that, to many observers, seemed implausible. Chinese energy companies have been scouring the globe for resources under the government's "go out" policy. One source close to CNOOC's top management believes the government "tolerated" the bid. But once it became clear that CNOOC's ambitions had become a flash point in an already tense relationship with the U.S., whatever enthusiasm there was began to wane. In mid-July, Beijing's Xinhua news agency opined that, in the future, perhaps it would be best if Chinese companies did "friendly" mergers with foreign companies. Later the Chinese media docilely parroted...