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...that's nothing compared with the overtures Seoul has been playing for its Northern cousins. The centerpiece of commercial ties between the two countries remains the Kaesong industrial zone. Opened in 2003, the district is now home to 65 South Korean-run factories employing 20,000 North Koreans. Lee Im Dong, general manager of the Kaesong Industrial Council, says hundreds of other companies plan to set up plants there when a second phase opens in early 2010. A rush is anticipated in part because, at the October summit between Roh and Kim, the North agreed to key improvements...
...Chinese border - promising to give South Korean companies an overland transport route to the booming mainland. The South has also promised to help rebuild the main highway from Kaesong to Pyongyang. Given that there is already an expressway that runs from Seoul to the DMZ, optimists such as Lee Im Dong of the Kaesong Industrial Council note that this would, in effect, link Seoul to Pyongyang with a modern road in just a few years. South Korea is also interested in rebuilding ports at Rajin in northeast North Korea near China and Russia, and in the southwest at Haeju...
Volz has always insisted that he was two hours away in the capital Managua at the time of the murder, and provided cell phone and IM chat-log records to prove his alibi - evidence that was dismissed by the judge presiding over his murder trial. Rodriguez, however, found that alibi more compelling, despite other inconsistencies in the case. "It's better to have 100 guilty people on the street than one innocent person in jail," Rodriguez told TIME...
...Parent was ranked first in the country for 13 and 14-year-old boys in the 400 IM, a position previously held by none other than six-time Olympic gold medalist, Michael Phelps...
...thought soccer violence stopped with British hooligans and Zinedine Zidane, think again. Here at Harvard it’s not the pros who follow in this tradition but the amateurs: while the Varsity team might stay collected on the field, IM soccer matches versus graduate students in Dudley House have become reputedly heated events. In a Quincy vs. Dudley match on Nov. 7, players kicked at each other, while the ball went largely unloved. Off the field, a Quincy tutor chastised Dudley players, one of whom responded with several obscenities, and asked the tutor if he “wanted...