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...Bush White House's National Security Council and met with Chinese officials to talk about nuclear proliferation issues in 2004 and 2005. One of Beijing's concerns is that Kim's nuclear belligerence will encourage China's ancient rival Japan to increase the role of its military or seek nuclear weapons of its own. "The Chinese leadership considers North Korea an albatross," says Green, now at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...Apac district hospital near Alenga, where THETA has encouraged the nurses to accept traditional approaches, it's not uncommon for patients to ask a healer for supplemental herbs or to check themselves out to seek traditional remedies. But even in Apac, the doctors are not so accommodating. Okello carefully fills out referral forms provided by THETA, but they often come back with no comments or diagnosis. "We don't get the feedback," says Okello, who takes it upon himself to make sure patients are following their regimens. "Maybe they feel it time wasting...
...freezing and thawing embryos may do damage as well. Rand estimated that at best perhaps 275 viable lines would become available. That's 10 times the number now being studied using federal funds, but they would not provide the quality, quantity and genetic diversity that scientists seek...
...vulnerability in Iraq, as well as the ability of Hizballah to make life difficult on Israel's northern border, may have emboldened Iran's leaders to play hardball in nuclear negotiations with the West. Iran's growing reach may also raise the incentives for Washington to seek a "grand bargain" with Tehran that would stabilize relations based on addressing Iran's demand for a normalization of its diplomatic status and security guarantees if it satisfactorily addresses Western concerns over its nuclear program and support for the likes of Hizballah and Hamas. (In a spurned Iranian overture to Washington...
...Hizballah leader Hassan Nasralllah said that the group did not seek a war in southern Lebanon but sought to swap the captured Israelis for Arab detainees held by Israel. He did not specify, but Nasrallah seemed to be referring to a handful of Lebanese as well as the hundreds of Palestinians whose release is being demanded by Hamas militants holding a captured Israeli soldier in Gaza...