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...another country?that's a tough one. As many as a quarter million North Korean refugees have crossed the line but remain near the border, hiding from Chinese police. So when seven members of the Jang family blazed an audacious trail to freedom, China wasn't sure how to react. After a complex trek in which a South Korean businessman led them to Beijing, the Jangs gathered June 26 for what they feared would be their final breakfast together. When they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including her teenage grandkids, small tablets of rat poison: if the police were...
...road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
...didn't worry about how people were going to react," Air's keyboard specialist Jean-Benoit Dunckel explains. (Air's other half is Nicolas Godin, who mainly plays guitar and bass.) "The idea was simply to do the most demented thing possible...
...this piecemeal development often causes individual communities to react to each of Harvard’s initiatives...
...Smart objects are defined here as objects that can sense and react to the world around them and that can communicate with other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to "own" a smart object upon purchase, except for those rights retained by the manufacturer and stated more or less clearly in the purchasing contract. Neither the owner nor manufacturer may be held responsible for smart objects that run amok without warning and no smart object can be disassembled without a lengthy trial with good lawyers on all sides...