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...Indeed, to the outside world it would seem in Kim's best interest to move swiftly to settlement. "North Korean leaders realize their economy is very sick, and they don't want it to die," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. Though Kim would not immediately get from the U.S. his full wish list?a security guarantee, diplomatic ties and an end to economic sanctions?aid would flow if he opened his nuclear programs to the invasive inspections that the U.S. and its allies demand...
...Schwarzenegger has had close Jewish friends from the time he left Austria. Paul Wachter, a financial adviser who heads Schwarzenegger's chief charity, the Inner City Games Foundation, is even chairman of the Austrian Holocaust Reparations Committee, a body formed by a U.S. federal court to administer the Holocaust settlement fund of the Austrian bank...
...setting fire loose in the forest again, he concluded that the forest had to be made more fire tolerant, and that meant restoring it to its original structure. For guidance, he and his colleagues turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
...information breaks down. "Even if we stop 19 out of 20 attacks," says a police source in Northern Ireland, "the twentieth could be devastating." That's exactly what happened five years ago in Omagh. Three months after voters across Ireland overwhelmingly endorsed the 1998 Good Friday peace settlement, dissidents slipped a massive car bomb past security forces. The bomb deepened the resolve to make the peace process work, but left lingering worries that the accord hadn't really delivered the hoped-for end to violence. "The further away you are from Omagh, the closer you are to another atrocity," says...
...claimed responsibility for the latest raid, but hard-line Islamist guerrillas are the main suspects. Other Stories: Chechnya in TIME Peace Roadblock ISRAEL Buoyed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's successful trip to the U.S., the Israeli government ordered the building of 22 homes in a settlement in the Gaza Strip, pushed through a law denying citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israelis and completed the first phase of a $1 billion security barrier that critics say will turn the West Bank into a vast prison. Sharon completed his visit to the U.S. without reprimand for constructing the barrier. U.S. President...