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...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...
...valuable because it's free and uncommercial. But tax money aside, nothing is free here--just look at the pledge drives, the corporate crypto ads, and the costume dramas aimed at aging, risk-averse members' fat wallets. PBS has taken a few chances, like the fine edu-reality series Frontier House and the well-meaning if melodramatic Hispanic drama American Family. But you can't remake Forsyte without inviting the question: Thirty-three years later, is PBS still worth...
...clerics have a long litany of gripes against the Americans and Musharraf, whom they dismiss as "an American agent" and "a puppet." They resent him for allowing the U.S. to use Pakistani military bases in Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier province as staging posts in its Afghan campaign. It angers them that agents of the fbi wiretap Pakistani telephones and organize raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. The Islamic hard-liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down...
...Africa, however, infection levels are at an all-time high. The disease is a particular concern in frontier areas with new agricultural and irrigation projects, including the Amazon, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa...
...national pastime of chewing a mildly narcotic leaf called kat. According to a recent local study, a typical Yemeni laborer spends three times as much on kat as on food. Saleh would like to make the country more economically productive, but investors are leery of Yemen's frontier culture. After Sept. 11, the government launched a grand sweep against individuals suspected of al-Qaeda links, and it still holds hundreds, according to high-level officials. In his effort to impose order, Saleh has tried more subtle measures too. Until a year ago, it was normal for cars, especially those belonging...