Word: thawed
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...minus 3 weeks. Like a spring thaw, writing will become revising, though the process will be just as draining. You will feel ecstatic about strange things, like finding an errant quote or cutting out the split infinitives. You also will find yourself talking about the thesis like it was super-interesting to others, from section to bars to the checker in the dining hall. Please feel free to restrain yourself. Please...
...when the Ice Hotel opened last month, the rooms were booked for weeks. Before the hotel closes at the end of March (what with the spring thaw and all), Desbois and his partners expect to more than meet their operating budget of some $530,000, thanks to overnight guests' paying $100 for bed and breakfast, about 40,000 day visitors who pay $8 for a tour, as well as income from numerous corporate events and sponsors...
...thaw between the two Koreas is opening up avenues to trade. Last year Seoul eased restrictions on the import of cultural goods, which ?allowed Baik Soung Ook, president of Deshine.com, to buy the rights to seven animated films produced at Pyongyang's 425 Studio. "Everybody thinks these films must be tainted by ideology," says Baik. "Actually they are very educational." Some are obvious parables of Kim Jong Il's life, but one features an apolitical silver rabbit that Baik hopes to merchandise in South Korea. "My hope is that children in North and South Korea can share the same movies...
...called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...
...India began the thaw, with a plan worked out between Vajpayee and a formerly obscure Indian bureaucrat, Brajesh Mishra, a 72-year-old chain-smoker from the Prime Minister's home state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. A former ambassador to China, Mishra is now the Prime Minister's most trusted adviser, his Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking...