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...lower the boil, Bush issued invitations instead of threats. Standing in a gleaming unused train station at the dead end of a line meant to connect both halves of the peninsula, he beckoned the North to link their tracks to all of the riches of democracy on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone. Privately, the administration told South Korean officials that they would be reaching out in more formal ways in the coming weeks. Bush also asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for help making the connections ,just as he'd tapped Japanese leaders two days before in Tokyo...
...start of the Aqsa intifadeh nearly 17 months ago left more than 50 people dead. Palestinians turned to military targets, killing six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. In response, Israel Defense Forces sent tanks into Gaza City, blew up the Voice of Palestine radio and TV station and for the first time fired on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, where he has been under virtual house arrest since December. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addressed Israelis on TV, promising to set up buffer zones between the communities. He pledged to continue his efforts to "prevent a slide...
Muslim extremist activity in Milan was highlighted when U.S. authorities identified the city's Islamic Cultural Institute as the main "station house" for bin Laden's network in Europe. This group is believed to be supplying operatives with false documents, lodging, money and communications. Milan prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso said last week's guilty verdicts were the first since the attacks in the U.S. that "recognized the existence on European territory of a cell that had strong links with a base in Afghanistan." The Milan cell has not, however, been caught with potential weapons, such as the toxins found in Rome...
Buyers will have plenty to listen to. By December, the number of digital stations in Britain will shoot from 24 to 310; 11 will belong to the state-owned BBC. On March 11 the Beeb will launch its first, new national music service in 32 years, the all-digital 6 Music, described as a station produced by and for music enthusiasts - in other words, a no-Britney Spears zone. Meanwhile, Capital Radio, a commercial station, is joining forces with Disney to create Capital Disney, a digital station aimed at the under-16 set (read, Britney welcome...
...radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased market segmentation...