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...spotter plane. It was Nov. 1, 1950, and he was looking at two divisions of Chinese infantry where none should have been, advancing under heavy shelling as if in a light rain. It was perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WW II, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable...
...Israel's September 6 bombing of Syria has further incited Hizballah. "They hit something, but, come on, it wasn't nuclear," a Hizballah source said, refuting rumors in the press the Israelis had hit some sort of North Korean nuclear shipment going to Syria...
...like real yogurt,” Wallace added. Yang, a gene regulation researcher at Harvard Medical School, and Wallace, a biochemistry researcher at MIT, said they had been planning to open a business since the day they met as PhD students at UCLA. After entertaining ideas such as a Korean barbecue restaurant and a social networking Web site geared toward scientists, the pair finally settled on the yogurt business. Wallace said that though he and Yang had been warned that opening a business while doing post-doctoral research was not feasible, “We left the naysayers behind...
...knockoff of the Agreed Framework, North Korea’s most famous broken promise. Signed in 1994, the Agreed Framework called for the North to halt its nuclear research in exchange for heavy oil and two light-water reactors from the U.S. In October 2002, however, a North Korean delegation admitted to its U.S. counterpart that the North had been secretly enriching uranium for years, even while the U.S. had been sending oil and building reactors. Now, the February deal once again offers North Korea economic aid for a promise it’s already broken.The flurry of futile deals...
kekeke: laughter (in Korean...