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North Korea appears to be backing off its Aug. 13 agreement with the U.S. to scrap construction of conventional nuclear reactors in return for a modern, American-aided light-water reactor. Rejecting South Korea's demand that it open its nuclear program to full inspection in return for the light-water scheme, North Korea claimed that two sites are in military areas and off limits...
...Senate has put health-care reform on hold until early September -- a move that will probably shoehorn any effort at legislation this year into the nine-week slot between Labor and Election days. After wearing themselves out on the crime-bill fight, Senators pressured majority leader George Mitchell to scrap his vow to hold up vacations until they crafted a compromise package...
...step above the denizens of the streets are those who haunt Moscow's hard-luck flea markets. At these outdoor bazaars, the bottom of the city's economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
Confused by the threat to impose sanctions on North Korea? Wonder why the shrewd (or mad) father and son who rule Pyongyang would scrap their nuclear- weapons program in the face of measures that have had little effect on less menacing dictators? Join the club...
When the Undergraduate Council proposed to move fall-term exams before winter recess, the Faculty Council voted unanimously to scrap the plan...