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SEOUL, South Korea: Efforts to establish a formal peace in Korea suffered a setback after a naval skirmish between North and South Korean gunboats Thursday. The North Korean vessel, which crossed into South Korean waters while escorting fishing vessels, fired three shots at the southern boat, which was on the scene to investigate the intrusion. The South Korean ship responded with two shots of its own, the South Korea's Defense Ministry said. No injuries were reported. But the incident was serious enough for South Korea to convene an emergency meeting of security-related Cabinet ministers. Although South Korean officials...
...business in 1987, and watched his company sink into bankruptcy in 1991. Then, amazingly enough, he managed to find a buyer for the business a couple of years ago, which allowed him to pay off old debts and emerge with some $300 million in cash--his springboard to the skirmish with RJR and a rejuvenated raiding career...
...libel judgment, the largest ever, courtesy of a Houston jury. The panel found the paper and one of its reporters, Laura Jereski, had libeled the investment firm MMAR Group Inc. The company went out of business shortly after the paper published an article that in part described an alleged skirmish between MMAR and a big client...
...family member of a Harvard employee was knocked to the floor and kicked in the head in a skirmish with two Harvard students at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) on Friday night, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) said yesterday...
Ooohh. Owww. You can just about hear the collective groans. In leaning over to pluck the latest wonder treatment for wrinkles or hair loss off store shelves, baby boomers keep being reminded of another skirmish in the Sisyphean battle against time: their aching backs. About 80% of all men and women will suffer from back pain at some time during their lives, and an estimated third of those between the ages of 40 and 55 are struggling with it right now. But doctors can definitively diagnose the problem in only about 10% of cases. Curing the ache is even trickier...