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...whiz coolness of modern-day electronic devices - flat-screen high-def TVs, 2-lb. laptop computers, the iPhone - the national power grid we plug them into is almost as old and unchanged as Edison's lightbulb. We rely on the grid to juice everything from vacuum cleaners to dialysis machines, but it is a dinosaur, a leaky, money-wasting, carbon-dioxide-spewing system that remains shockingly vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks...
...From these conditions emerged the modern-day athletic policy of Harvard. Yes, the administration decided, the College would actively seek athletes for its student body. Yes, it would strive to remain competitive with its peers. No, students would not receive athletic scholarships, but they would have the same opportunities as other needy students for financial...
...immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad—Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become the subject of his book. “You can be imprisoned in China for simply feeding...
...kidnappers or pirates, and are usually authorized to take decisions without agreement from the shipping or oil companies concerned. Since the pirates off Somalia are motivated by money - rather than politics, as in Iraq and Afghanistan - the talks focus on one issue: the ransom amount. (See pictures of modern-day pirates...
...Japanese-owned chemical tanker that was hijacked on Nov. 10 last year. ISAC secretary-general Joseph Entero says the ship's owner is unwilling to pay ransom, the hostages' families are being given little information, and the government is not doing enough. "[The government calls] our overseas workers the modern-day heroes of the Philippines because of the remittances they send home," he says. "But the help the seafarers are getting from the government is not adequate." Entero says the government should take more action on a multinational level. "Why, if the seafarers involved whites - Americans or Europeans - they...