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...country's Dear Leader has quietly launched an educational offensive to ramp up his country's computing skills and build an internationally competitive IT industry, moves that experts say have been strongly encouraged by Kim's oldest son, Jong Nam, who directs the Korea Computer Center. Grade-school kids are now drilled in Pascal and other computer languages, while gifted students are channeled into science and technology programs at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University, which some have dubbed the MIT of North Korea. Although currently stalled because of troubled bilateral relations with South Korea, another technical university...
...Established in 1890, Tilleke & Gibbins is Thailand's oldest law firm. It got involved in intellectual-property law in the early 1980s, and by 1989 the company had stockpiled so many phony bags, clothing and sunglasses as evidence in its IP cases that a senior partner decided they could do a valuable public service by putting them on display. In today's troubled economic times, the role of the appointment-only museum is arguably growing in importance as consumers worldwide become desperate for bargains. Security experts with the Hong Kong-based consultancy Asia Risk recently estimated that international trade...
...Stop, oh stop it." -On learning he'd been named one of Capitol Hill's "50 most beautiful people" by the Hill newspaper in 2006. He was the oldest honoree. (The Syracuse Post-Standard, July...
...would deny that Harvard is a pretty darn cerebral place. As we’re so often reminded, it’s America’s oldest college, home to Nobel-prize winning faculty and students who are the country’s best and brightest. In thinking about my past four years here, then, it strikes me as a bit odd that they seem altogether less academic than my high school years. Don’t get me wrong—I’ve taken Ec10 and read Milton—but the lessons that I learned from...
...kickstarting Europe's biggest economy. Throw in the fact that a federal election is coming up in September, and it becomes clear that Merkel doesn't want to go down in the history books as the Chancellor who axed thousands of jobs at one of the country's oldest carmakers. The German Chancellor even brushed aside critics and dissenting voices within her own cabinet...