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...trouble started with the software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
...evidence that more are succeeding. In the first five months of this year, around 60 North Koreans arrived in Mongolia, up from fewer than 10 in the whole of last year. Beijing's nightmare is that millions could start pouring across the border. As a result, Chinese police relentlessly hunt down North Koreans to send them back; they recently began house-to-house searches along the border. If the UNHCR office is suddenly seen as a haven, so much the worse for Beijing...
...ignorance. In their one-hour April Fools’ Day special, the host flew to various cities, asking Americans about phony issues that any Canadian—or American with common sense—would easily rebuff. Example: “What do you think about the illegal rhinoceros hunt in Saskatchewan?” Or, “Canada’s been thinking about switching to the twenty-four hour clock. Right now we use a twenty-hour metric day. What’s your opinion?” Everyone from educated, empowered Northeasterners to Venice Beach rollerblade...
...leaders most wanted for atrocities committed in Bosnia, who had eluded justice in no small part because of Milosevic's patronage. The two men are thought to be hiding out in Bosnia, and now that the Serb authorities have acted to deliver Milosevic, NATO will presumably be emboldened to hunt down his enforcers...
...false sense of security. Too often they take what they believe is a well-deserved break from the rat race. Employers are extremely wary of applicants with that kind of gap in their resume. A job seeker is like lettuce to the employer. The fresher you are to the hunt--a week or 10 days off to get the resume tuned up--the better. When a potential employer asks, "What have you been doing since you left your job three months ago?" the expected answer is not "Sailing the Greek islands...