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Thursday, July 31, 2003

 
North Korea: How Not to Handle a Tyrant
Where diplomacy is needed, the Bush Administration has opted for name-calling. It's time to drop the insults and start talking
AUGUST 1, 2003
AFFAIRS OF STATE
By Stan Crock
(BusinessWeek online)

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

 
Japanese Divided on Iraq Troop Deployment
Tue Jul 29, 3:10 PM ET
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer

Monday, July 28, 2003

 
Can The Government Compel You to Fund Attacks On Yourself?
 
Tax Misery Index
(Forbes via Eschaton)

Thursday, July 24, 2003

 
David Sifry: "An incredible lesson in civics..."
David Sifry talks with me for a half hour here about his Technorati page.
(via Scripting News)

Monday, July 21, 2003

 
A blog for everyone
By Mark Ward
BBC News Online technology correspondent
 
Walking Into Trouble
Spy flights prove North Korea is making plutonium. It may have four nukes already. But don't panic ... yet
By Richard Wolffe and B. J. Lee
NEWSWEEK July 28 issue, 2003
 
North Korea may have second nuclear plant
North Korea may be producing plutonium for atomic bombs at a second, underground nuclear reprocessing plant, according to intelligence officials in Seoul and reports in the US.
By Andrew Ward in Seoul
FINANCIAL TIMES/Asia-Pacific
Published: July 20 2003 13:19 | Last Updated: July 20 2003 13:19

Friday, July 18, 2003

 
Matsui gives Yanks a walk-off win
NEW YORK -- Hideki Matsui opened the second half of the season in dramatic fashion, hitting a walk-off home run to lift the New York Yankees to a 5-4 win over the Cleveland Indians.
(New York Yankees News)

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

 
N. Korea Drops Insistence on Bilateral Talks, Officials Say
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 17, 2003; Page A09
(The Washington Post)

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

 
U.S., N. Korea Drifting Toward War, Perry Warns
Former Defense Secretary Says Standoff Increases Risk of Terrorists Obtaining Nuclear Device
By Thomas E. Ricks and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 15, 2003; Page A14
(The Washington Post)
 
U.S. under fire over N. Korea
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is checking claims Pyongyang has enough plutonium to make half a dozen nuclear bombs, as it fends off criticism its North Korean policy is ineffective.
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Posted: 12:09 AM EDT (0409 GMT)
CNN.com/U.S.
 
US admits intelligence uncertain of N Korean declaration
By Andrew Ward in Seoul and Guy Dinmore in Washington
Published: July 16 2003 5:00 | Last Updated: July 16 2003 5:00
FINANTIAL TIMES
 
Breakthrough 'close' in North Korea crisis
After months of diplomatic stalemate over North Korea's nuclear programme, analysts are predicting that the crisis is approaching a pivotal phase.
By Andrew Ward
Published: July 15 2003 17:20 | Last Updated: July 15 2003 17:20
FINANTIAL TIMES
 
US war plan to topple Kim Jong-il
The United States has begun drawing up a military plan designed to topple the North Korean Government that could provoke war with the communist state, according to new reports.
July 15 2003
By Shane Green
Tokyo
THE AGE

Monday, July 14, 2003

 
Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang
By John Feffer
FPIF Policy Report
July 2003

Sunday, July 13, 2003

 
Files show a stubborn North Korea
Communist bloc archives reveal that aid to North Korea gave its old allies little influence.
By Jasper Becker | Special to The Christian Science Monitor
from the July 10, 2003 edition

Thursday, July 10, 2003

 
In Japan, U.S. Expat Fights the Yankee Way
TOKYO -- Don't call me a foreigner, the green-eyed native New Yorker tells a Japanese sharply.
(By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 5, 2003)

Wednesday, July 09, 2003

 
Arsenal Of The Axis
North Korea already supplies missiles to rogue states. Now it poses a new threat: nuclear proliferation
BY JOHN LARKIN AND DONALD MACINTYRE / SEOUL
(TIME ASIA - July 14, 2003 Vol. 161 No. 27)

Tuesday, July 08, 2003

 
You Want Statins With That?
It's summertime and the eating is easy. As you throw more red meat on the grill, you know that little pill will keep your cholesterol down. But could it also stop Alzheimer's?
By David Noonan
NEWSWEEK - July 14 issue

Update: statin n.
Any of a class of lipid-lowering drugs that reduce serum cholesterol levels by inhibiting a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol.

Monday, July 07, 2003

 
Something To Prove
Pedro Martinez and Mike Mussina were two prominent All-Star Game snubs. But both were dominating Monday before the Yankees emerged with a 2-1 win. The winning run was scored by Hideki Matsui, but is he an All-Star? Bob Klapisch argues Matsui earned his selection, while Sean McAdam says no way he's among the AL elite.
(ESPN Baseball)

Matsui Definitely Deserves His Star
EXCELLENT CHOICE: Yankee leftfielder Hideki Matsui got lots of support from Japanese fans but there is no doubting that he belongs on AL All-Star team. Jeff Zelansky
(By Jay Greenberg - New York Post Sports)

Wednesday, July 02, 2003

 
Scholars who blog
The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of academics.
By DAVID GLENN
(From the issue dated June 6, 2003
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Research & Publishing)
 
Tokyo Cemetery Plots Priced at $86G
Wed Jul 2, 2003
By KOZO MIZOGUCHI, Associated Press Writer
(Yahoo News)
 
Israel boycotts BBC after network's coverage "verges on anti-Semitism"
Israeli officials have decided to sever all ties with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in protest of the network's broadcast of a documentary critical of Israel's unconventional weaponry.
By Ellis Shuman June 29, 2003
(israelinsider)