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...college town's annual party--one of the country's biggest--has turned violent, causing police to deploy pepper spray and arrest hundreds. With 100,000 revelers expected to flood Madison's streets for this year's bash, the city is preparing a new party-control measure. Its main drag, State Street, will be open only to those who pay a $5 entry fee. "We're recovering some of the $600,000 in taxpayers' money spent on crowd control," says Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. "Some" may end up being "a little"--only 3,000 tickets have been sold. Partiers simply plan...
...proximity of such desolation goes to the heart of China's quandary about how to deal with North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Il. Dandong is the main crossing point on China's 880-mile border with North Korea, making it the most active hub for the $1.6 billion in annual trade between the two countries. That trade is critical to the survival of Kim's regime: some 90% of Pyongyang's daily oil supply and just under half its food imports come from China. Although the U.S. believes that tightening the financial squeeze on Pyongyang is necessary...
Making those sanctions meaningful depends on China. China said last week that the country's four main banks will cease handling transactions from North Korea. It also says it had increased inspections of goods passing from China to North Korea by land, although there will be no inspections of seaborne cargo. Chinese newspapers reported last week that authorities had closed all border crossings with North Korea except for the most heavily trafficked one, at Dandong...
...year olds now who are using their headphones inappropriately may have pretty whopping hearing losses and will have to spend the rest of their lives dealing with the fact that they cannot hear at proper levels,” said the study’s main author Brian J. Fligor, an audiologist at the Children’s Hospital Boston and an instructor in otology and laryngology...
...tree-lined promenade, courting teenagers mixing with office workers and doting parents chasing a single, precious child, many of them toting shopping bags from nearby malls. But this is anything but a normal town, because just across the river stands the decrepit North Korean city of Shinnuiju. As the main crossing point on China's 880-mile border with its purported ally, Dandong has suddenly been thrust into the international spotlight as U.N. sanctions over North Korea's nuclear test come into effect...