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Politics intruded on the writers' strike too, in complicated and ironic ways. Huckabee, who has cast himself as a worker-friendly Republican, took heat for crossing Tonight's picket line. Meanwhile, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, TV's havens-in-exile for Bush bashers, found themselves getting turned down by Democratic and left-leaning guests, since they were working without striking writers. Stephen Colbert, in character as a conservative pundit, railed against Barack Obama for pledging, if he's President, to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yet turning down the Report: "He's saying Stephen Colbert is worse than...
...mind as Clinton experienced a similar metamorphosis in New Hampshire last week?an unclenching that took place under far more difficult circumstances, with the whole world watching her every move. It was a rocky path with an unexpected ending. She made mistakes, said a few things in the heat of battle that she probably regrets. But she also allowed herself some tentative moments of spontaneity?not just her now famous near tears in Portsmouth, but moments of humor and anger and grace as well...
...doing business in North Korea. The transportation infrastructure in the region is dilapidated, the power supply unreliable. But some companies are willing to take the risk. Four years ago, Wonjin Worldwide Corp., a Seoul-based mining company, formed a joint venture to mine and smelt Danchon's graphite, a heat-resistant material used in steelmaking and other industrial applications. The first shipment of 200 tons of graphite arrived in the South's port of Inchon in mid-December, and despite the problems in the North, Wonjin Worldwide now wants to invest more, says Yoon Byung Roh, the company's president...
...mind as Clinton experienced a similar metamorphosis in New Hampshire last week - an unclenching that took place under far more difficult circumstances, with the whole world watching her every move. It was a rocky path with an unexpected ending. She made mistakes, said a few things in the heat of battle that she probably regrets. But she also allowed herself some tentative moments of spontaneity - not just her now famous near-tears in Portsmouth, but moments of humor and anger and grace as well...
...outside the sprawling provincial capital of Denpasar. Every day trucks add up to 800 metric tons of waste to quivering piles of tattered cloth, leftover food and the ubiquitous plastic water bottles. Virtually the only waste management at Suwung comes in the form of scavengers who brave the heat to comb through the mountains of trash for anything salable. Meanwhile the landfill grows by the day, with the garbage leaking into a nearby mangrove forest, decomposing to release foul-smelling methane, a potent greenhouse...