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...massive amounts of aid. Seoul's increasingly close relationship with the North will make it harder for Washington to nail down a deal that leaves Kim Jong Il no wriggle room. But the new Administration is unlikely to back down from the position that any deal has to shutter North Korea's nuclear program for good...
...along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese...
Ever sat at a ball game and wished you could see a quick repeat of that awesome play you just saw? Bushnell's Instant Replay binoculars ($600) let you do exactly that. As you peer through the lens, you can push a shutter button to capture up to 30 sec. of continuous footage. Then you can watch the video on a 2-in. LCD screen that flips open on top. The 16-MB CompactFlash card that comes with the glasses stores up to 2.5 min. of video or 150 still images. Want to give your friends a peek? Hook...
...imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible rules, Roos predicts that reform of the 35-hour week is unlikely: "It's now considered an entitlement." That's just how most French regard the social protections that the Marseilles court backed and the arts workers...
...team set out in two SUVs on Highway 10, a four-lane strip that runs through Fallujah. Shortly before the vehicles arrived in town, according to eyewitness accounts, a small group of men in masks detonated a small explosive device, clearing the streets and prompting shopkeepers to shutter their doors. The attack, locals later said, was hardly a surprise: insurgents reportedly set up ambush points around the city, waiting to assault any foreigners who might venture in. As the Blackwater vehicles made their way down the divided road, according to reports, at least three men cut the convoy...