Word: flips
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...Bush Administration has flip-flopped on North Korea. It recently had agreed to resume talks with Pyongyang, suspended since early 2001. But when Assistant Secretary of State Kelly took off for North Korea in early October, the purpose of his mission had changed dramatically. The CIA had briefed Bush in August about its new intelligence on Pyongyang's secret enrichment program. The President decided to confront Kim with the evidence, but the Administration first shared it with several congressional leaders and key countries that the U.S. would need to help lean on Pyongyang: Japan, South Korea, China and Russia...
...crack. But for all the high math that goes into the jumbling of important messages, hackers and security types alike realize that while encryption is hard, people are easy. All too often, the best-scrambled plans of cryptographers are laid waste by an overworked IT guy who forgot to flip the encryption switch or a lazy user who picked a too obvious password...
...skirts at Gucci will grow a magical 10 centimeters before hitting store shelves. And if designers don't make viable alternatives available themselves, retailers can always find safer versions of the same trends at other houses. The batwing tops seen at Dior, Gucci and Stella McCartney are the flip side of the miniskirt trend. Dior and Gucci have been pushing this new, billowing silhouette for several seasons, but it's new for Stella McCartney, who showed the best collection of her short career at her own label. If a ballooning blouson jacket in crocodile seems a bit too much...
...there's also a flip-side, in the form of the ethnic Turcoman minority in northern Iraq, who have their own political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan but have a troubled relationship with the Kurds. Many Kurds see the Turcomans as a proxy for Turkey. The Turcomans themselves feel like a minority without a place in this big Kurdish fraternity, and they look to the Turks for support. I met with the leader of the Turcoman party, who said frankly that if the Turcomans are in jeopardy, they expect Turkey to come in and help them - which sounds like creating...
...flip side, her new teammates had rarely faced the type of competition that Maasdorp saw regularly in Zimbabwe. Her team routinely practiced against men’s squads, exposing her to the speed and skill of men’s field hockey. Her brother introduced her to such play...