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...possibly step up efforts to intercept North Korean shipments of contraband. But China, the only country with genuine influence over Kim, remains opposed to disruptions in North Korea's aid and legal trade?and with a seat on the U.N. Security Council, it can block any U.S. attempt to gain international backing for economic sanctions. Beijing fears that if North Korea plunges into political and economic chaos, a flood of refugees might stream across the border into China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Done Talking? | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

American culture, it seems, has become so litigious that Americans are now able to see financial gain in planting body parts in fast food. That’s a frightening reality, and it is a distinctly American one; in no other country are lawsuits so prevalent as in America, where, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a lawsuit is filed every ten seconds of every working hour. These lawsuits are a problem, and not simply because they give cynical Canadians (like me) fodder for making fun of American culture. By perpetuating a mindset that is over-eager to assign...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: Giving the Finger | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard hired people for 15 hours a week, knowing that 16 gave workers health insurance,” said Jeffrey Moura, a janitor at GSE who has joined the union fight to gain health benefits for himself and the other janitors...

Author: By Brett LINDSAY Laffel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSE Workers Demand Benefits | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...unwanted individual who allegedly attempted to gain access to dinner at Adams House prompted an officer to search the area for the perpetrator. The individual could not be found...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...been reason to celebrate. "Burri's artworks represent Umbria in its deepest and most intimate nature," says Maria Rita Lorenzetti, president of the Umbria region. However, Burri's wife did not share her husband's affection for Città di Castello. After the artist's death, she tried to gain control of all of Burri's works. But in 1998, Italian courts ruled in favor of Albizzini as the guardian of Burri's art. Right now, the only record of the missing work is a photo-catalogue. In addition to the art, the collection contained intimate pieces Burri gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing Act | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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