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...said last week that "we do not want individuals or families to start sealing their doors or their windows," adding that "there may come a time" when authorities recommend that Americans do so. Undaunted by criticism that the White House may be needlessly frightening the public, Ridge plans to unveil this week yet another set of practical guidelines for how citizens should prepare for attacks...
...South Korean officials, however, see the latest nuclear muscle flexing by Pyongyang as the continuation of a long-established pattern of extortion through brinkmanship - the North Koreans unveil some new weapon threat and hang tough, and then agree to mothball it in exchange for economic aid. Even now, Pyongyang is sending out mixed messages, brandishing a nuclear threat but also hinting that it would disarm in exchange for a non-aggression pact and other concessions from the U.S. That's not palatable to the Bush Administration, but the alternative is a policy of malign neglect in which North Korea...
...promising financial aid if North Korea would quit developing nukes. South Korea and Japan, the regional neighbors most eager to quell North Korea's malign power, gladly put up most of the cash. Critics complained the U.S. was giving in to nuclear extortion. North Korea, they warned, would unveil a threatening new capability whenever it wanted more aid. The latest disclosure proved the hard-liners right about one thing: Kim could not be trusted to live up to his agreements...
...part of the university's quest to find the world's biggest punchline, that the people visiting the Laugh Lab's website gave the jokes they found there the highest "funny" rating ever. But I must have missed it. Last week, the Laugh Lab team had a giant chicken unveil the result of their research: the joke below was found to be the world's funniest. But I must have missed that, too. Some 65% of those polled allegedly rated this joke "very funny" or "funny." I couldn't rouse a chuckle. A little worried that I might...
Ceremonies and prayer services have occurred throughout the New York region all week long, including a ceremony held Monday in Battery Park to unveil 25 new names—those of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers lost during last year’s attacks—engraved on a police memorial there. There was also a candlelight vigil held in Nassau County, Long Island, on Monday night, to remember the 300 Nassau County residents who never returned home from work on Sept...