Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Jung, suggested just that. If a mere 20 or 30 kilometers of missing railway track between South and North were restored, Kim observed, "you could board the train in Pusan or Mokpo, travel through China and the Maritime Province of Siberia and reach all the way to central Asia and on to Paris." That would be a train ride I'd love to come back to Korea to take. But Korean unification--tongil, the word that was on every South Korean's lips during our visit--won't happen in the few years any of us there might have left...
...Harvard alumnus I have to deplore the manipulation and improper use that President Mahuad made of his Harvard ties," wrote Rodolfo A. Baquerizo '85, who was a board member of Ecuador's central bank from 1992 to 1996, in an e-mail message...
...Blair has been having a rough time of it recently: Leaked memos, accusations of being more concerned with his image than his government, poor poll showings, bickering between cabinet ministers, heckling at his speeches and worst of all, his teenage son found passed out in his own vomit in central London...
...preserve, part geological washing machine. The first in a series of parks that Bargmann is planning for the restoration of this part of southwest Pennsylvania, it is being paid for by the town along with state and federal agencies and will contain picnicking areas and hiking trails. But its central feature will be a stream of acidic water that will percolate out of the mine and course down a limestone-lined canal into aerating basins and finally to a wetland for a final rinse. Alongside the water's path, Bargmann is planting a "litmus garden"-- rows of cherry trees, blueberry...
...meets Mommie Dearest. This summer families visiting Colorado's Hyland Hills Water World can rent watchlike gadgets ($3 a day) that track each family member's movements anywhere in the park. The watches send out regular signals that are picked up by 14 sensors located throughout the park. A central computer triangulates the wearer's exact location, which is then displayed on a map at special kiosks. From now on, "Stay off the roller coaster" really means "Stay off the roller coaster...