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...Baek ominously threatened "self-defensive measures." The actual South Korean response was less menacing: a "counterdam" that would be built 12.5 miles south of the North Korean one. Dubbed the Peace Dam, the $690 million wall of steel and cement would be the same size as its northern counterpart and thus would be able to stop any flood from across the DMZ. Its only purpose would be to sit, mutely vigilant, waiting for the Kumgangsan Dam to collapse...
Employees of some private companies have not fared as well in court. In Iowa this fall, a federal appellate court upheld the right of the Burlington Northern Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration...
...Common grackles, as they are known, are just that - common, especially in the fall and winter when southern birds move into the urban areas and northern birds fly south in great flocks of thousands. Google "grackle" and you will find birding sites that describe them as "opportunistic foragers" and "boisterous and abundant." For every rhapsodic bird lover, there is someone like director Michael Berry, whose successful short film Day of the Grackle, depicts one man's war with a grackle from hell...
...cold, gray winter sky sags low over northern French town of Hem - a little over five miles east of the bustling city of Lille, but on a different socio-economic planet. While Lille's jobless rate of 10% is above the national average of 8.6% (in large part due to its sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just...
...stand up to these people," he says. "They don't see the man who sits at nights there in the chair and cries over his son." With his son's case coming to a close, McCord has his eye on plans to appoint an official champion for Northern Ireland's victims of violence. It will be a tough job, but he believes a hard...