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...Kitten Cannon” (kittencannon.html at the above address), where you shoot a kitten out of a cannon at trampolines, spikes, and kitten-eating plants, and “The Helicopter Game” (addictinggames.com/helpicopter.html), in which you ‘pilot’ a helicopter through a tunnel while avoiding ominous-looking hovering green blocks. My roommate’s high score in the latter game is 3,458, and if you can beat it and take a screenshot for proof, I’ll do my best to give you a shoutout in a future column...
...satellites probing North Korea picked up evidence of work on a secret underground nuclear test facility. But when U.S. officials were allowed to inspect the site in 1999, they found an empty hole. Now, new images appear to show the North Koreans hard at work on another suspicious tunnel, this time in the northeastern Kilju county. Heavy equipment has been spotted hauling material into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence?a possible sign that the North is plugging the shaft to create an underground chamber for an imminent nuclear test...
...Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test? Yes," says the official. "Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's record of bluffing, "it's very possible they are pretending it's a test" so as to scare the rest of the world into offering richer economic aid in exchange for halting nuclear arms development, says Choi Jin Wook, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification...
...extra food aid--but when the inspectors arrived, all they found was an empty hole. With that incident in mind, U.S. officials last week cast a skeptical eye on new satellite images of the North Koreans hard at work on another big dig. Traffic around the mouth of a tunnel has intensified recently, and heavy equipment has been spotted hauling materials, possibly including cement, into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent...
Come spring, Harvard Square is awash with people from tourists to students to locals. But through their omnipresent dark sunglasses, they often develop tunnel vision; in their focused quest for summer, they see sunshine, ice cream, maybe a daffodil or two––but not much else. Yet there is more to spring in Harvard Square for this morass of sun-seekers...