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...OVERHEATING Don't apply rubbing alcohol to the skin to cool down. This closes the pores and makes it more difficult for the body to get rid of excess heat. Similarly, even cold drinks that contain alcohol or caffeine make it tougher for the body to cool off. Get to a cool place and stick with cold water and sports drinks. Heatstroke, in which the victim loses consciousness, requires immediate medical attention...
...thought Pyongyang's bad behavior would gain it allies for a tougher line, though, it was wrong. The Bush team said the uranium program was proof that Pyongyang could not be trusted, but critics argued that Washington's hard line had driven the North to pursue enrichment. South Korea's President at the time, Kim Dae Jung, who had pursued a "sunshine" policy toward North Korea, urged caution and more direct talks between the North and the U.S. Pyongyang's longtime protector, China, refused to support U.N. sanctions against the North despite its concerns about a nuclear-arms race...
Bryant proved last week that he can be a charismatic testifier. But he may have a tougher audience in Eagle County, a Colorado district in which blacks total only 0.3% of the population. Even here, though, Bryant's benign image may trump his color. "Kobe the superstar is in some ways raceless," says Kenneth Shropshire, author of In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. "He could be like Michael Jordan, someone nonurban white folks think of as a superstar, and not primarily a black...
...Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful power generation only. To ensure that is the case, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) along with the U.S. and the European Union are pressing Iran's leaders to sign an additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that would allow tougher IAEA inspections. There's no solid evidence in the public domain to indicate that Iran is chasing the Bomb?and in the aftermath of the debacle over Iraq's still-undiscovered weapons of mass destruction, it's impossible to conclude that the U.S. intelligence community has an abundance of secret...
...took responsibility for the attack but police suspected a banned Sunni Muslim group. Beached Blob CHILE Scientists were baffled by the remains of a huge, gelatinous sea creature that washed up on the country's southern Pacific coast. The 12.4-m long creature, which resembled a mammoth jellyfish with tougher flesh, was initially thought to be a whale. Experts decided it was a marine invertebrate, perhaps a giant squid, and they appealed for help in identifying the monster. Yanks Going In? LIBERIA The West African regional body, ECOWAS, agreed to send 3,000 peacekeeping troops to monitor the fragile week...