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...pictures of Seoul, the high-tech capital of the world...
...same became largely true for other totalitarian states, including the Soviet Union, with its phalanxes of tanks and high-tech missiles streaming past the Kremlin every May Day. Elaborately choreographed events known as Mass Games, involving countless dancers and volunteers, are a particular legacy of communism: they still go on with regularity in North Korea, where tens of thousands train for months and act out with mechanical precision surreal tableaux lauding the isolated rogue state's shadowy leadership...
...substance emerged from the forum is unlikely. (Vyacheslav Shport, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, sounded like any old congressman when he suggested the key to economic recovery was more cash for a local Air Force base. "This is an excellent Far East project for the creation of high-tech innovation that could attract investment and defend industries from crisis events," he said.) Of course, substance wasn't the Kremlin's goal. The goal was to send a message to the locals (and especially local officials): You are part of Russia. You are being taken care...
...says most Japanese people don't know much about the dolphin hunts. "I don't think it's a big topic here," he says. "As long as [their killing] is humane, dolphins are like other animals to us." The most humane technique, according to Nishimura, would be to use high-tech machines to minimize the animals' suffering. The most common hunting methods, however, are oikomi, a process illustrated in the film in which fishermen chase dolphins into shallow water and surround them with a net, and tsukimbo, in which dolphins are killed individually by harpoon. Taiji is the only place...
Setting the Record Straight In our article "China's Power Play" we should have emphazised that Lishen provides hardware manufacturing while Coda provides sales know-how and high-tech expertise [Aug. 31]. And also, Coda Automotive is based in Santa Monica, Calif., not Silicon Valley as we stated...