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...Chief among those right now is North Korea. While Iraq insists it has no WMD and submits to inspections, North Korea takes the opposite tack: Two months ago it told the U.S. that it has, in fact, been building nuclear weapons despite a 1994 agreement to refrain from doing so - even adding, for good measure, the claim that it had already built a couple of nuclear bombs. When Washington's only response was a stern rebuke and the cutting off of all food and energy aid from the U.S. and its allies to the starving communist nation, North Korea upped...
...only thing they are celebrating is that they have lots of company in their fiscal misery. Laws in all states except Vermont require a balanced budget. To achieve that in the current fiscal year, which in most cases runs through June 30, states must slash spending and tack on fees and taxes. What they are pondering ranges from the relatively painless (new taxes on tobacco and expanding gaming and lotteries) to the inconvenient (shortening hours at DMV and welfare offices) to the positively painful (closing hospitals, parks-and-recreation departments and libraries, cutting Medicaid, raising college tuitions and laying...
...Right now, it's hard to say which way Bush will tack. What is clear, is that despite the enormous issues confronting America, from the sputtering economy to terrorism and war with Iraq, the electorate stayed home and didn't get very involved in picking the men and women who would go to Washington to wrestle with these problems...
...style; one husband wants angular stones for the new fireplace because they're more "manly" than curvy river rocks. On Discovery's Surprise by Design, people race against the clock to give their unsuspecting spouses a room or garden makeover (TLC's While You Were Out takes a similar tack). Supplemented with wedding videos and gushy when-we-first-met stories and ending with a climactic unveiling, it's like The Newlywed Game with nail guns: If you really loved me, you'd know I hated pastels...
...street criminals are interested almost exclusively in semiautomatics, preferring their superior firepower. (Semiautomatics hold at least seven and often as many as ten or twelve rounds of ammunition.) Gun traffickers like to peddle cheap semiautomatics to teenagers because they can tack on a hefty mark-up and still offer a weapon that costs less than an upscale gun like a Ruger or Smith and Wesson semiautomatic. That's why inexpensive semiautomatics dominate the top ten list. As it happens, many of the companies on that list have links to George Jennings, founder of the now-defunct Raven Arms...