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...President Bush will be under pressure from China and South Korea to make concessions to Pyongyang, in the hope that it trades its nukes for massive amounts of aid. Seoul's increasingly close relationship with the North will make it harder for Washington to nail down a deal that leaves Kim Jong Il no wriggle room. But the new Administration is unlikely to back down from the position that any deal has to shutter North Korea's nuclear program for good...
...anticipation of a nail-bitingly close election, students at Harvard and around the nation are turning to the internet for an instant glut of political news, facts and commentary...
...might find it far more difficult to stay united on bread-and-butter economic issues than on civil rights for homosexuals. The governing Social Democrats in Berlin, for example, are currently pushing through reforms that look a lot like the ones the opposition French Socialists are fighting tooth and nail in Paris. "Political groups will increasingly act as real European parties," says Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, a researcher at Belgium's Royal Institute for International Relations. "But let's not be too naive. National interests will still outweigh political color on essential issues." Indeed, in a new Time/cnn poll...
...skin was placed. So when Bob or Helen moves, it's the muscle that's animated, which causes the skin to move, which in turn gives the humans a much more solid presence. The Pixar team also worked hard to make the fabrics realistic (it took three months to nail one brief scene of Bob sticking his finger through a hole in his superhero costume). Another challenge was making the hair look natural. Violet's long, floppy mane kept flying off her head every time she shook it. When producer John Walker pressed the lead simulator to diagnose the problem...
...turned out, the identical twins had plenty of remarkable things in common. In some cases, both suffered from migraine headaches, both had a fear of heights, both were nail biters. Some shared little eccentricities, like flushing the toilet both before and after using it. When quizzed on their religious values and spiritual feelings, the identical twins showed a similar overlap. In general, they were about twice as likely as fraternal twins to believe as much--or as little--about spirituality as their sibling did. Significantly, these numbers did not hold up when the twins were questioned about how faithfully they...