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According to Walid, the two soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him, dragged him to a jeep and drove away. All that his family would know about their missing son was that his shopping bags with meat and rice for that evening's dinner were found in the dusty road near an olive grove. Over the course of several days in April last year, the boy says he was moved from an army camp to a prison, where he was crammed into a cell with five other children, cursed at and humiliated by the guards and beaten by his interrogator until...
...recent disregard for its own economic conditions doesn't bode well for any attempt to use financial incentives to woo Pyongyang into better behavior. "They may still negotiate for some kind of deal," Noland says. "But I don't think we're going to get denuclearization" in the near term. That means North Korea's economy, just like its relations with the outside world, is likely to get worse...
...financial collapse of 2002. But he decided not to run for a second term in 2007, deferring instead to his wife, then a popular Senator. Though critics claimed their plan was simply to alternate in power for 16 years, Fernández won decisively and took office with a near 80% approval rating...
...dedicated to veterans and civil personnel who worked on the 210 nuclear-test explosions France carried out from 1960 to 1996. Those resources will also be available to people who claim they are suffering from radiation-caused illnesses because, at the time, they lived in the Algerian Sahara and near the two Polynesian atolls where France staged its underground, submarine and atmospheric blasts. The legislation - whose 300-to-23 passage spanned party lines - should breeze through both houses of Parliament in subsequent votes following Tuesday's initial test. (See pictures of the worst nuclear disasters...
Have a burning question? Well, if you happen to be in the Square this summer, and you happen to write said question on a notecard, and you happen to insert said notecard into the box attached to the Wheel Questions art installation on Brattle St. near Chipotle and Eastern Mountain Sports, then Johnny Monsarrat just might have an answer for you. Actually, he will definitely have an answer...