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...importance of the North Korean market to the Chinese helps to explain why officials have been relatively slow to enforce the U.N. sanctions. At Dandong's three-story customs compound, a plump, middle-aged man who calls himself Li and says he is a truck driver gestures toward the 15 or so vehicles waiting to be inspected before driving onto the bridge over the Yalu. "The inspections are a little stricter, but it's really just for show. They poke around a bit and then...
...beginnings of international races.“A lot of the Europeans go off the line at ridiculously high stroke rates,” Lofgren said. “But our coach [Dave O’Neil] believes in long, strong strokes, and even though it was slow and steady, we still got off the line first.” This success did not go unnoticed. As a result of the stellar work in Belgium, the senior national team extended an offer to Lofgren she could not refuse: join the team to compete in the World Championships, the second highest...
...Sprints win in 2004—is good dinner time talk. By now, however, dust has settled on those gold medals, new memories sit alongside old ones, and the pesky past tense finds only begrudging company in Newell Boathouse. But in October, when races are long and cadences slow, the past begins to lose its slight hold in Newell.“To be honest, what we did freshman year just doesn’t enter into my thought process,” Aldrich says. “You can look back on your accomplishments after you?...
...literally conservative—that sought to preserve the balance of the international order by keeping other countries from disrupting it and pursued only incremental change—no longer applies in the post-9/11 world or that we do not have the luxury of this comparatively slow and methodical strategy. So it adopted nearly the opposite foreign policy, one that is inherently radical, seeking to overturn the existing world order and build a new one from what is left over. (To be fair, it has certainly succeeded in reducing Iraq to its constituent parts...
...black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change. Two years ago, Thami Xaba opened Soweto's first wine shop, the Morara Wines & Spirit Emporium. He reckons it's the wine industry that has been slow to recognize the potential of places like Soweto, not the other way around. "Drinking wine represents a lifestyle. It means you are affluent," he says. "I could never have opened the shop at a better time than now. The market is untapped. It's huge." South Africa's wine producers - most of whom...