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...many North Koreans, it's perhaps just as well that not much light shines from the Hermit Kingdom onto the river. For this narrow, watery stretch is where thousands of North Korean refugees have crossed secretly into China every year to flee famine and oppression. The vast majority are women. Although many men and children come for short stints of begging or manual labor before returning home with full bellies and a bit of cash, most North Korean women come to China for new lives. The younger, prettier ones often end up at the euphemistically named "beauty salons." But thousands...
...Russian economy to buck the perception of dysfunctional cronyism; the latest ham-fisted attack on the most prominent Russian industrialist—and its seizure of 44 percent of Yukos—only makes the business climate more unpredictable and unattractive. Indeed, capital has once again started to flee from the country, and it now looks as though an anticipated merger of Yukos with Exxon Mobil is on the ropes...
Born in 1902 to wealthy and well-connected Barcelona family—his uncle, Güell, was the patron of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí—Sert would flee first from fascism in Spain and then again from Paris with the onset of World...
...digital music, it would behoove legal sites to court consumers rather than to repel them with restrictions. Charge reasonable prices, make MP3’s compatible with all portable devices, offer a wider array of songs and artists, allow for unlimited burns, and consumers will be less likely to flee to Kazaa. But in return, we must face the inevitable: it’s time to start paying for our music again...
...goal of driving the U.S. out of the Muslim world, overthrowing the pro-U.S. regimes in states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and eventually everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia), and to eliminate the Jewish state in their midst. Al-Qaeda propaganda regularly proclaims that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that the 9/11 attacks would force the U.S. to immediately quit Saudi Arabia or to abandon Israel, but the jihadis operate...