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...That's nearly twice what a taxi would cost," I protest. He shrugs and takes a pull on his cigarette. "80 baht?" I venture. It's almost 6 p.m., and every minute wasted means another minute's worth of traffic backing up in the capital's sclerotic arteries. The hell with haggling, it's still less than $3. "Okay," I concede, "100 baht. And please, drive carefully." Wiset flicks a switch and the two-stroke engine explodes into life with a flatulent blast, filling the immediate vicinity with evil blue fumes...
...cornered, starving wolf, short of fuel, food and just about everything else. But with a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis still nowhere in sight and Pyongyang stating it is fully capable of making the first military move, the question becomes: is Kim crazy enough to pull the trigger...
...October, North Korea admitted it was violating the 1994 accord by continuing with a secret nuclear-weapons program, triggering a new crisis. This time around, instead of merely threatening to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, North Korea has actually done so. And a new U.S. administration appears disinclined to parley unless North Korea agrees to dismantle its nukes as a precondition to talks. Last week, while warning the U.S. Congress that North Korea could be capable of supplying nuclear weapons to terrorists within months, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage offered assurances that "we're going to have...
...Then he leaned in for the killer: he was raising our monthly rent, flouting our contract with the confidence that he, like so many other landlords in Shanghai, would pull off the price hike. My husband and I were astonished. To us, the rent we had been forking over was already far too high, considering the spotty electricity, gas and water...
...knew our lower seeds would have to carry us today, and that one or two of the top five players would need to pull upsets,” said freshman and Harvard No. 1 Will Broadbent...