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North Korea's rocket launch of April 5, the U.N. Security Council vote to condemn the launch and strengthen sanctions, and the North's decision of April 14 to pull out of the six-party talks have thrown a monkey wrench into prospects for a negotiated resolution of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapon and missile programs. On the surface it appears that North Korea is again embarked on a threatening course; it has vowed to continue work on its contested weapons programs. But on closer examination, the North's weapons tests always occur at times of insecurity. Its tough posturing belies...
...After we pull our land rover off the track to watch a pair of leopards, I ask my two safari guides what animal they'd be most excited to see. I'm thinking elephants, lions, rhinos - the charismatic megafauna that attract tourists from across the world. Their answer: aardvarks and porcupines, the reclusive nocturnal residents of Kenya's Masai Mara. "I took care of cattle on the Mara when I was a boy," says Jackson Tinka, 21. "So I've seen a lot of wildlife...
...determine whether stocks are a good investment, in 23 of the past 24 bull markets stocks have risen for an average of 194 days before falling more than 10%. That means the current rally, near 60 days, has more than six months to go, on average, before stocks pull back. "Absolutely, this is a bull market," says Birinyi. "The market is telling us that we got too negative...
...it’s understandable to want to talk about it. Attempts at introspection, on the other hand, are where the problem kicks in. Public Twitter user jquaglia, for example, writes, “Do you ever have one of those days when you feel like every wishbone you pull breaks the wrong way?” Deep, man, just deep. Such self-indulgence has always existed on angsty teenage blogs like Livejournal, but now it is condensed and made absurd by its brevity. Speaking to no one in particular, about nothing in particular, in a space so short that...
...testicles in question), isn’t beyond love either; his relationship with the retired female Army medic is a charming—if lewd—extension of his story. As antiquated a genre as it might be, the sheer number of noir elements employed is enough to pull even the most fickle reader through the slim volume. The novel’s success isn’t one shining moment of stylistic joy—the aforementioned passage may even be out of place in “Nobody Move.” It’s that...