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...primary leverage in dealing with the world," says TIME Tokyo correspondent Tim Larimer. "It?s crippled by famine and the decline of its industrial base, so its military might and reputation for irrationality are its strongest cards in any negotiations." As if to underline the point, Pyongyang warned Tuesday that "the further the United States escalates pressure on us, the stronger our reaction will become to bring unpredictable consequences...
Scores for the grade three Iowa Reading Test released Tuesday showed 59 percent of Cambridge's third graders are "advanced" or "proficient" readers. The jump from last year's score along with exceptional performance from four Cambridge elementary schools--Cambridgeport, M. E. Fitzgerald, King Open and Morse--has teachers and principals beaming with pride...
...meantime, it looks more and more like the GOP leaders against the world. From the White House (Al Gore stopped by late Tuesday to trash the bill for neglecting Medicare) to the polls, the appetite for a cut that big just isn?t there right now. Even fellow Republican and economic icon Alan Greenspan is in on the finger-wagging. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, the Fed chairman more or less repeated what he told the House last week: In this time of economic plenty, tax cuts aren?t bad, but debt repayment ?- and preparing for boomers...
Ehud Barak may be lauded in Western and Arab capitals as a champion of peace, but now that they've actually got down to dealing, the Palestinians have found they've bitten into a tough cookie. Barak and Yasser Arafat had a meeting Tuesday aimed at restarting the peace process, and the outcome was anything but positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land...
...pate: Kenny Svendsen scowls and swabs his scalp while finding some electric relief outside a store in the New York City borough of the Bronx on Tuesday...