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...Korea already has two bombs built from plutonium produced before the 1994 agreement took its reactors offline. It may also have as much as 500 tons of chemical and biological agents. But even without unconventional weapons, North Korea's artillery and medium-range missiles give it the capability to flatten most of Seoul in a matter of minutes. Analysts suggest that an all-out war along the Korean frontier could cost a million lives on both sides. And those in the frontline - the South Koreans and Japanese - have stressed they have no desire for confrontation with Pyongyang...
...Palestinians had an army that could flatten Jewish settlers' homes, F-16 fighters that could pound Tel Aviv, Apache helicopters that could "surgically" remove any Israeli or Jewish leader not to their liking, would any Palestinian youth choose to become a suicide bomber? Killing oneself in defense of a cause has been tried by desperate people for centuries. Instead of concentrating on the Palestinians' suicide bombing, the Israelis would be better served by rooting out the causes of such desperation, acknowledging the Palestinians' right to freedom from occupation and giving the Palestinians back their land. NAJWA KHURI-BULOS Amman...
...ratio of sales to inventory, a measure of how much stuff is sitting in the warehouse, topped out at 1.43 in September compared with 1.75 and 1.98 the past two recessions. The downside is that the replenishing period that the economy is enjoying may start with a bang but flatten because companies carry less inventory overall. "We can respond within a day or two," says Rodger Mullen, president of Schneider Logistics, which manages an auto-parts supply chain for GM. "Ten years ago the process took eight to 12 weeks." So he needed to carry more parts to be safe...
...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
...Ashazai says that even if the U.S. planes were to flatten Kandahar to the point where Sherzai and his mercenaries could march in, they wouldn't last long. As one Pakistani border official remarked: "If America hands over power to these looters and bandits, the Taliban will be back in six months - and the Afghans will welcome them back...