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...TIME: Your failure to bench press 185-lbs. during a workout has some people questioning your strength. What's your reaction...
...long-sought diplomatic concession: direct negotiations with Washington that could eventually lead, according to the agreement, to normalization of ties between the U.S. and North Korea. As a signal to Pyongyang that the Bush Administration means what it says about establishing diplomatic ties, Hill in a June 22 press conference in Seoul said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was prepared to attend six-party talks in Beijing this summer. That would be the first meeting between a U.S. Secretary of State and senior North Korean officials since Madeleine Albright met with Kim in Pyongyang in late...
...Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, and despite a turbulent seven years under the inept leadership of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the territory is prospering. That is not to say there aren't concerns. Hong Kong suffers greatly from a lack of full democracy. The press censors itself to avoid angering the powers that be. (For refusing to pull its punches, Apple Daily publishes under a boycott by pro-Beijing businesses that costs us $25 million a year in advertising revenue.) Hong Kong's air quality is deteriorating, as is the standard of English. And landmarks that...
...over the new E.U. treaty. One day later, he dined in his office with Condoleezza Rice, on her official first visit to see him. Gushing enthusiastically at each other in front of reporters that evening, Rice dispensed with the usual formalities and called him "Bernard," and Kouchner ended the press conference by planting kisses on both cheeks of his U.S. counterpart...
Bureaucracy, corruption and lack of a free press are huge obstacles to a similar change in China, but there are some encouraging signs. In 2004 the deaths of 13 babies who were fed adulterated milk powder touched off a national furor. The state-run broadcaster CCTV airs a popular weekly program on food-safety scandals. China's leaders, says Zweig, "know that Chinese people have this sense that they deserve better." The World's Factory After a series of product recalls, from pet food to tires, American regulators are paying more attention to the goods exported to the U.S. from...