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...Korea, the D.P.R.K.'s economy shrank 1.1% in 2006 after eight years of moderate growth. Under pressure from international sanctions, nearly every sector of the North's lilliputian economy contracted, with new construction plummeting 11.5%. Torrential rains in August, meanwhile, destroyed an estimated 11% of the country's rice and corn crops, again raising the specter of a mass famine like the one that killed as many as a million people in the mid-1990s...
...Sticky Rice Problem...
...says.Even though these experts don’t see the tuition-free model as a positive good, not all students agree with them.Olin sophomore Jeffery H. Moore applied and was accepted to some of the nation’s most elite colleges, including Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, and Olin. While he describes his background as upper-middle class, he says that his family could not have afforded the $40,000 price tags of the Ivy League easily, which led him to turn down Columbia, a school he was seriously considering. “The tuition cost separated schools that were...
...Arab sources see it, the lack of such an Israeli gesture is one of the signs that Rice has not finished preparing the way for the conference's success. They worry, for example, that Rice has not developed a Plan B if Abbas and Olmert can't agree on a framework and timetable that charts the future of their negotiations. "What if the Palestinians and Israelis do not reach a general framework?" asks an Arab source. "Do the Americans have something ready that they can pull out of their pocket and say, 'These are our suggestions?' And will they...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit told an Arabic newspaper recently that in discussions with Arab diplomats Rice had articulated a more encouraging American vision for the peace process. "But I am being perfectly clear here," he added, unless a framework for a peace deal is established first, "this meeting will not meet its goals and will instead reflect negatively on the Palestinian-Israeli future, the future of the entire region, and perhaps even the future of the relationship between the Arab-Islamic world and the Western world." Such dire warnings may be pre-conference jockeying, but perhaps wisdom...