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North Korean diplomats have exasperated Americans since the Korean War, when the top U.S. armistice negotiator denounced them as "treacherous savages." Last week U.S. diplomats felt much the same as the third round of talks in Geneva to halt Pyongyang's nuclear-development program not only stalled but slid backward...
Swedish researchers have developed what they say is a successful procedure to alleviate joint pain and even halt arthritis. The purported miracle is a process that grows patients' own cartilage to replace the damaged tissue. Prime candidates for the operation in the U.S. are the 190,000 people who have knee-replacement surgery each year...
...power plants to see whether they house anything fishy -- like nuclear warheads. The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces apparently wants to stymie the talks between the U.S. and Pyongyang, but some North Korean diplomats have suggested its sights are set lower: all the Ministry want is to halt U.S.-Japanese naval maneuvers off the Korean Coast, which the brass has unilaterally construed as an unfair scare tactic...
...nowhere on the issue that Castro blames most for his economic problems: the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo. The deal sealed in New York last Friday amounted to a simple swap: the U.S. will take in at least 20,000 legal Cuban immigrants each year, and Havana will halt the wave of boats and rafts that have carried 35,000 would-be refugees north from its beaches this year...
...Cuba reached an agreement that would halt the Cuban exodus, permit at least 20,000 Cubans to enter the U.S. legally each year and allow for the repatriation of "those Cuban refugees who have recently left and wish to return...