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...crippling energy shortage could be the regime's Achilles heel. North Korea currently generates 2.3 million kilowatts annually, about half of what it needs to keep its trains and factories running and cities lit at night. As much as a third of that is believed to leak during transmission. Some power equipment is more than 60 years old. Theft of copper and aluminum transmission lines for sale as scrap in China is rampant, even though it's a capital offense. Says Han Young Jin, who worked as an electrical engineer in Pyongyang before defecting to Seoul in 2002: "The grid...
Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) David N. Rodowick’s Literature & Arts B-11, “The Art of Film,” will allow students to take a Lit core that focuses solely on film...
...study concluded that exposure to the fires, which were lit by the Iraqi military as it was pushed out of the country, had a hazardous effect on Kuwaitis—an impact said to be roughly equivalent to smoking 20 packs of cigarettes. The researchers calculated that this added risk resulted in about 100 premature Kuwaiti deaths...
While environmentalists generally laud these efforts, corporate pledges to go green tend to be the first casualties when business gets tough, and enviros often criticize the promises as "greenwash"--really, business as usual. In 2000, Ford Motor lit up the Birkenstock crowd by promising to improve SUV fuel economy 25% by 2005; three years later, the firm reneged amid a steep sales slump and $6.4 billion in losses. Ford has started issuing reports on its environmental impact and is taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part...
Eckehard Kaerner, 50, an Austrian high school teacher headed for some vacation study in Israel, died of multiple wounds under a brightly lit Christmas tree near the E1 A1 counter. "Suddenly there was this terrible noise, not single shots but real explosions," said a Viennese man who jumped behind a counter. "Three or four meters to my left, three people had fallen to the ground. There was a small child, all bloodied, its mother, who was also wounded, and a man who lay bleeding and seemed dead. To my right, another man had fallen and did not budge anymore...