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...Palace intrigue isn't the Dear Leader's only headache. Launched in 2002, North Korea's half-hearted economic reforms have failed to fix its flat-lining economy. Instead, they have fueled rampant inflation and an uptick in public discontent. The country will require outside help to feed more than a quarter of its estimated 23 million people next year, the World Food Program warned last week, despite the best harvest in 10 years. Economic reforms have cut subsidies to households and factories while millions remain out of work. With inflation running at more than 100%, even many people with...
After finishing the first half on a high note—junior forward Zach Martin connected on a three-pointer off an inbounds pass from sophomore guard Jim Goffredo as time expired—the Crimson came out flat in the second half and allowed Northeastern to go on a 10-2 run to tie the game within 90 seconds...
DIED. ARTHUR ROBINSON, 89, cartographer whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...
...wider side of Sears. But in the wake of last week's $11 billion megamerger with floundering discounter Kmart, the Sears Grand could be the foundation of an extreme and long-overdue makeover. By melding the Sears savvy in selling so-called hard goods like dishwashers, lawn mowers and flat-panel TVs with Kmart's upmarket "soft" brands like Martha Stewart Everyday, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, the sales pitch goes, the two perennial retail losers just might create a winning formula. On the other hand, by combining two badly managed retail dinosaurs into one, wags say, the companies...
After finishing the first half on a high note—junior forward Zach Martin connected on a three-pointer off an inbounds pass from sophomore guard Jim Goffredo as time expired—the Crimson came out flat in the second half and allowed Northeastern to go on a 10-2 run to tie the game within 90 seconds...