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...missiles could threaten the continental U.S.?although some experts doubt the North's aging subs could carry out the operation. Says Hwang Jin Hwan, a professor from the South Korean government-run Korea Military Academy: "Even if they've developed these missiles, they can't hit the U.S. mainland because they can't get them across the Pacific...
...prefer to hike down the 80 steep and narrow steps carved into the rock to reach the sandy beach. The fishing villages of Nidri (which some claim to be the home of Homer's Odysseus) and Vassiliki are a short taxi-boat ride away. Linked by bridge to the mainland, Lefkada can easily be reached by car or bus. You can also fly from Athens to Preveza airport, located just across the water from the island...
...speeding and drunk driving, and also raises penalties significantly?for example, imposing a lifetime driving ban on drivers who flee the scene of an accident, and sentences of up to seven years in prison for those who kill someone while driving drunk. Something had to be done. While mainland China possesses just 1.9% of the world's vehicles, last year it accounted for 15% of total global traffic accidents. (More than 100,000 people died on China's roads...
...With millions of new cars and fledgling drivers clogging mainland China's transportation system?there were 16.7 million new vehicles and 11 million new motorists last year?strict enforcement of new traffic laws is crucial. Unfortunately, as is often the case elsewhere in Asia, enforcement is the weakest link in the road-safety chain. "Police corruption is widespread in China. That's no secret," says Liu, a crew-cut, 37-year-old traffic cop who declined to give his full name. "It's especially true in the traffic section. If you help spring a murderer, you're going to feel...
...only the keenest of bushwalkers. Dating of those discovered in 1986 in Ballawinne cave, in the Maxwell Valley, provided the first proof that rock art in Australia had survived from the last Ice Age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Tasmania was then joined to the Australian mainland by a land bridge, and though the island's stencils may not be as old as Arnhem Land's tableaux of long-limbed spirits, or as elaborate as the red spectral figures of the Kimberley region's Bradshaw paintings, they still inspire wonder, for the Ice Age hunters and their families...