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...endless propaganda wars between North and South Korea, each side is constantly conjuring up new security threats, real and imagined. The South Koreans say the Communist North's latest weapon is water?tons and tons of it. The dispute involves the Kumgangsan Dam, now being built on the North Han River near the Demilitarized Zone. The facility will produce 800,000 kW of electricity and create a reservoir holding 20 billion gal. of water. South Korea charges that if the dam should ever collapse or be demolished by the North, the resulting flood would be a disaster. Thundering down...
...Everybody’s around more than other weeks,” he said. “People don’t have to worry about running to get to class on time.” Whatever the nature of the issue, simple discipline remains a key weapon against upticks in eating. “My rule is to limit snacking to carrots and apples,” wrote Walter Willett, the HSPH’s Stare professor of epidemiology and nutrition, in an e-mail, referencing his own habits when faced with stress. “They provide something...
...Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fueled destabilizing forces in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine while pursuing a nuclear weapon. His influence cost thousands of lives and threatens many more in the future as he sparks continued deterioration of the region that is the world's greatest source of oil and terrorists. By avoiding the choice of Ahmadinejad, TIME sacrificed its journalistic integrity. Henceforth the rightful name for your selection should be Popular Person of the Year. Gordon Landwirth New York City...
...legs, Hizballah, even now links into Hamas, the ability to have nefarious intellects in Iraq. They're going to have influence in on Iraq - Iraq's neighbors. That's not (inaudible.) But the kind of influence that destabilizing their and their ability to marry that with a nuclear weapon suggests to me that it's quite a big problem, but you can - we still have time, I think to arrest these developments. It means rallying those states that are concerned about it. It means being very tough on the nuclear issue. Some of the financial measures that we are engaged...
Fifteen years after the Soviet Union's collapse, it's tempting to think of the cold war as history--until you land in Baku. This is the front line of a new East-West contest, one that is as consequential as the nuclear-weapons face-off of the past: the battle for energy supplies among countries heavily dependent on imported oil and gas, which include the U.S. and the E.U., plus the rocketing economies of China and India. That necessity is a powerful weapon in this new battle. Shortly before Christmas, Russian President Vladimir Putin forced Royal Dutch Shell...