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...their freedom. "A former President is not going to show up in Pyongyang only to get stiffed," said a Western diplomat on Tuesday. "There had to have been assurances that this was the endgame" for the two women prisoners, who were arrested on March 17 along the border in northeast China while filming a report about North Korean refugees. They were subsequently convicted of illegal entry and unspecified "hostile acts" against North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. (Read CNN's story on Clinton's meeting with Kim Jong...
...North Koreans meant what they said, the White House signed off on the idea. The visit ended the journalist's 4½ month nightmare after being arrested March 17 and held in North Korea as punishment for allegedly crossing the border while filming a report on refugees in northeast China. Their plane touched down early Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, where Lee and Ling are sure to have an emotional reunion with family members...
...Florida market, a pound of indoor grown marijuana goes for upwards of $4,000. But in the Northeast, the best market for Florida growers, the same marijuana goes for about $8,000 a pound. Unlike their closest regional rivals, Florida growers can produce up to four crops annually...
...nail and a hammer have the upper hand. If you've got the money, someone who knows his way around a band saw has got the time, and often at a very good price. And chances are, depending on where you live - best spots: the West Coast and the Northeast - he'll be right over...
...Still, setting a national threshold may not make sense. Health-insurance costs, after all, vary widely depending on where you live. In regions where there is less competition among insurers or where health-care costs are relatively high (like much of the Northeast), insurance costs more. It's also more expensive to insure workers employed in high-risk fields like manufacturing. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...