Word: koreans
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...clothing collection made in Africa from organic cotton and linen colored with vegetable and other gentle dyes. Walking to his spacious studio, in one of Berlin's countless courtyards, he stops off to admire handmade surfboards in a store, and then heads to his favorite café where a Korean barista makes him a cappuccino that meets his Italian standards. Berlin is "a place for new beginnings," Grazioli says. "Being in an unfinished place has a huge impact on you. In Milan I wouldn't have allowed myself to do something...
...Propulsion Laboratory, Qian helped debrief German rocket scientists following World War II, but he was accused of being a Communist spy at the height of the McCarthy era and put under house arrest. He and his family returned to China in exchange for U.S. pilots captured during the Korean War. In China, Qian used his skills to promote and organize scientific bodies as well as develop the missile programs that laid the groundwork for China's first manned space mission in 2003. But he remained bitter over his treatment by the U.S. "It was the stupidest thing this country ever...
...confidence in Obama to do the right thing in world affairs. Just a year earlier, President George W. Bush had scored just 17% in the same measure. In some parts of Asia, Obama's popularity is particularly high, with 85% of the Japanese public and 81% of the South Korean public expressing confidence in the new American president...
...Michael Froman, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Economic Affairs, and Thomas Donilon, his principal Deputy National Security Adviser, will both be in the picture on economic and national-security issues, especially regarding the prospect of North Korean talks - or potential sanctions should those talks fail and relations with the Hermit Kingdom erode further...
...episode late Tuesday morning only intensifies the deeply strained relations between the two Koreas. Earlier this year, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il staged a bit of a charm offensive, ending a period of silence while he recovered from a stroke. Kim said he would again agree to talks about his nuclear program, and he hosted former President Bill Clinton in Pyongyang, who traveled to the North to win the release of two U.S. journalists who had been arrested there. But there's little sign of any thaw with Seoul. Pyongyang has been infuriated that South Korean President Lee Myung...