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...security agencies must unravel a conspiracy that stretches back years and across continents. Israel's Mossad, experts in this sort of thing, estimate that it took at least two years and 100 people to pull it off. Someone thought long and hard how to do it, then found willing fanatics to carry it out. They carried different passports--Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon--and perhaps pledged fealty to different radical factions. What brought them together was first a hatred of America for causing their resentments and frustrations, and then someone who knew how to transform their rage into...
...divided over his policy of rapprochement with the North. Sit down with the opposition, they urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal with Pyong-yang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and act presidential. Otherwise, they warned, his presidency could unravel. "I told him: 'You are the Nobel Prize winner,'" recalls Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian minister. "'You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...anti-Kim rhetoric that lawmaker Lee broke ranks with his own party leaders and urged them to tone down the brimstone. " We shouldn't give the impression we're defending tax evasion or corruption," he told TIME. Lee called on the government to set up an independent panel to unravel the media mess. The more likely scenario, skeptics say, is years of wrangling in court over the fines, or a backroom deal that will get the media off the tax hook?and, perhaps, encourage them to write sentiments a little bit sweeter...
Scientists have only recently begun to unravel the mysteries of synesthesia. They estimate that roughly 1 in 2,000 people has the condition and that there are nearly as many types of synesthesia as there are permutations of the senses. While synesthetic responses are usually as unique as fingerprints, the condition runs in families. Nabokov, for example, for whom the letter b evoked the color burnt sienna, and t, pistachio green, often argued with his equally synesthetic mother about the true colors of the alphabet...
...confidence among consumers, who apparently see further deterioration in the economy and in business. Layoffs have picked up in pace, and fears are shifting from worrying about their neighbors' jobs to worrying about their own. Consumer spending is slacking because of this, and if that continues, the economy will unravel entirely...