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North Korean Nuke Test: What Good Is Diplomacy?
Even before the mystifying Kim Jong Il took power in 1993, the outside world has tried mightily to figure out how the North Korean regime works. Spy satellites are trained on suspected nuclear sites 24 hours a day.
The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
Let ‘s not mince words: literary lists are basically an obscenity. Literature is the realm of the ineffable and the unquantifiable; lists are the realm of menus and laundry and rotisserie baseball. There’s something unseemly and promiscuous about all those letters and numbers jumbled together
Turning Buildings Inside Out
Las t year the Pritzker Prize, the closest thing architecture has to an Oscar, went to the architectural equivalent of an indie star: Paul Mendes da Rochas, a Brazilian architect who was greatly gifted but not exactly a household name. This year it goes to the architectural equivalent of Paul Newman
Report: Iran blocks Facebook ahead of presidential election
The Iranian government has blocked access to the social networking site Facebook amid political jockeying for the June 12 presidential elections, according to the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency. Reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi — a former prime minister considered a threat to current hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — created a Facebook page for his campaign that has more than 5,000 supporters on the site. Those attempting to visit Facebook received a message in Farsi saying, “Access to this site is not possible,” according to CNN personnel in Tehran.
Why does Russian energy giant Gazprom wield such power?
Riding through the streets of Moscow or flipping through channels of Russian TV, it’s difficult to escape messages from the country’s natural gas monopoly, Gazprom.
Contagious cancer threatens future of devils
Australia’s iconic Tasmanian devil — widely known as trouble in Looney Tunes cartoons — has been put on the country’s endangered list, environmental officials announced Friday.
Lady Golfers for Rent: Escort Service for Duffers?
Visit any public or private golf course, any day of the week, and you’ll spot the same things. Manicured trees and flush fairways. Ecstatic fist pumps, as hacks somehow chip it near the cup.
‘Idol’ showdown: ‘Guy next door versus the guy-liner’
Perhaps Ryan Seacrest said it best at the top of the "American Idol" Tuesday night when describing Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, the show’s final two contestants. “It is the battle of the acoustic rocker verses the glam rocker. Conway (Arkansas) versus California
How to Defeat an Insurgency: Sri Lanka’s Bad Example
The conflict in Sri Lanka has long provided lessons for militant groups around the world. The Tamil Tigers taught terrorists everywhere the finer points of suicide bombing, the recruitment of child soldiers, arms trafficking, propaganda and the use of a global diaspora to collect resources