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...enemy. As a young scholar with an idealistic desire to see the Korean peninsula united, Kim traveled to the communist North as a self-styled peace broker. In South Korea 40 years ago, that made him a North Korean spy. The agency's interrogators beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim, now a frail grandfather. "Or they'd put a wet towel over my face and pour water on it so I couldn...
Since his retirement, Knuth has continued to write and to update his software. He gives occasional lectures and performances on the pipe organ...
...Feniou were involved in making a beer funnel, a long-standing Pennypacker tradition that takes advantage of the dorm’s sizeable central stairways. The funneling device was constructed, fourth floor resident Devin C. Powell ‘03 explains, from “an old piece of pipe that was all nasty, that we found in a closet.” The pipe had a capacity of six beers at a time, creating an epic mess on the ground floor. “You’d walk into Pennypacker for weeks afterward and smell the stench from...
...more than 5% of that. Refineries operate at less than 30% of capacity. But the picture belies a deeper reality: Iraq is potentially the most important new player in the global oil market. Although each day brings fresh accounts of breakdowns in the country's crude-oil machinery--fractured pipe-lines, controls damaged by looters, rusting equipment, 1970s technology in the 21st century--Iraq is the only country capable of flooding the world with cheap oil on the scale of Saudi Arabia. And that poses a major test for Washington...
...warns one senior U.S. official. "They've taken another body blow with these latest arrests. But we can't afford to be complacent. We still don't know what capacity they've got out there." His warning was echoed by Indonesian police and, on Thursday morning, underscored by a pipe-bomb explosion outside the United Nations' Jakarta headquarters. No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but one senior security official with a large Western conglomerate offered a disturbing theory: "It's a little reminder from JI: 'We may be down now, but we'll be back...