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...recent cover story on North Korea that the leadership, "for reasons only they can fathom," are determined to continue the coldest of wars [June 22]. North Korea has never varied in its determination to conquer the south. Only the fear of U.S. nuclear retaliation stops their invasion. The nuclear program is designed to prevent this by the threat of mutually assured destruction. Brad Elliott, North Rocks, Australia...
...Iran are bad because their interests often clash, they do not trust each other and they run their domestic affairs very differently. Perceptions matter. Iran's rulers interpret sympathetic media reports of demonstrations as interference arising from hostility. Insistence that Iran should heed Security Council resolutions on its nuclear program reads as hypocrisy when there is no action on Israel's nukes. The Iranian leadership rejects what it calls double standards on violence: calling for peaceful solutions but waging war in Iraq. Iran's government (but not all its people) rejects cultural influences from Western creative industries, which...
...chip-development courses and soon repurposed clean rooms for emerging green technologies. These days, it generally takes about six months of weekend classes to get qualified to be a solar installer, a job that can pay up to $16 an hour. But starting in August, a compressed weekday program - catering to the recently unemployed - will allow students to cram the same courses into just two months. To earn an associate degree focusing on renewable energy - enough prep for a job as a solar-installation-team leader, which can pay up to $28 an hour - an ACC student has to take...
...delegation of high school students from Chicago will visit Sidi Moumen to study Mazoz's methods and implement them in deprived neighborhoods back home. "The grand vision is to make his endeavor into an international model," says Marilyn Diamond, co-chair of the Chicago Casablanca Sister Cities International Program. (See pictures of Barack Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...
...Ikram Malki. Her eyes flutter under a thick coat of turquoise eye shadow; on her head sits a crown of sequined plastic flowers. After she takes a bow, I ask about her experience with Mazoz. "There was a vacuum in my heart before he came along," she says. "This program filled the emptiness." And what does she want to be when she grows up? "A community organizer," she replies...