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...name suggests peace, calm, harmony. A sort of Buddhist New York, so good they named it nice. But to those who have visited, the South Korean capital will forever conjure up images of smog, traffic and crowds. If Seoul has a song, it is played on that ubiquitous instrument of sonic torture, the jackhammer. Home to 10.8 million people, which by some estimates makes it the world's fifth largest city, Seoul could scarcely be called a haven of serenity. Or could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Retreats for Stressed-Out Seouls | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...well the students performed once they were on campus. A second analysis found that the SAT accounted at most for just 10% of each admissions decision. Says Jane Brown, the school's vice president for enrollment and college relations: "We concluded that the SAT was just a blunt instrument which doesn't help us cut to the core of who a student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Without The Test | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Liberation Army lies not across the Taiwan Strait or anywhere else in the region; China's military's primary purpose remains maintaining order at home. And as the social consequences of its transition to capitalism manifest in mounting threats to domestic stability, the military becomes an increasingly indispensable instrument of power to the leadership in Beijing. But the military is not unaffected by the social turmoil arising from the economic changes, and ratcheting up its budget may look like a sound investment for the increasingly nervous leadership in the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Beijing Fired a Warning Shot Over U.S. Bows | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...army, and former paramilitary leaders Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic-received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for brutalizing women in 1992 and 1993 in the southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims of Foca to leave after Serbs overran the town. Presiding judge Florence Mumba called the defendants "lawless opportunists [who] should expect no mercy" for their roles in a "nightmarish scheme of sexual exploitation." The judge noted that women and girls, one as young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...well the students performed once they were on campus. A second analysis found that the SAT accounted at most for just 10 percent of each admissions decision. Says Jane Brown, the school's vice president for enrollment and college relations: "We concluded that the SAT was just a blunt instrument which doesn't help us cut to the core of who a student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Without the Test | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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