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...Hermit Kingdom is poking its nose out of its shell. Senior State Department officials are surprised by how North Korea has begun to reach out to other countries over the past few months. Pyongyang recently established formal diplomatic ties with Italy, Brunei and the Philippines, and is discussing normalized relations with Japan and Australia. "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, who celebrated his 58th birthday last week by opening a consulate in Hong Kong, is even warming to the old enemy - he held a personal meeting last October with Hyundai executives from South Korea...
Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...
...younger brother Hassan. But in the span of two dramatic weeks exactly one year ago, Hussein sacked Hassan, named Abdullah the new heir, suffered a cancer relapse and died. Many Jordanians feared that their small country would not survive without "the father." But now Abdullah is leading his kingdom into an era where building efficient, modern states may be more important than such paralyzing old issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict. "The message has changed," says Abdullah. "We have peace and want others to enjoy it. We need to shift from politics to the economy. My priority is to bring...
...kind of brand recognition enjoyed by Coca-Cola. It is rare to find a town where a Gap store does not exist and rarer still to find someone who doesn't have at least one item of Gap clothing. The name needs no translation in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany, where Gap Inc. operates some 375 stores. "I would not be the least surprised if Mickey has something up his sleeves to renew the fireworks at the Gap," says Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report...
...pain. A few months ago, the girls started clamoring for Instant Messaging privileges--all their friends had it! Instant Messaging was something that came only with unrestricted adult access, so I admonished the girls never to talk to strangers...and then I gave them the keys to the kingdom...