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...stop subsidizing most companies, a crucial step toward less fettered enterprise, though the timetable is unclear. In July, central planners also instituted a new price control regime meant to spur North Koreans to be more productive. Wages jumped as much as 20-fold, while prices for electricity, housing and rice were sharply increased from levels that were so low, the services were virtually given away. Companies are also starting to introduce bonuses for the best workers. Kim Sung Gi, a staff member of Pyongyang's largest library, says his salary increased 20 times to about $100 a month, while...
...Whether change will be deep or lasting remains unclear. The countryside of North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly...
...Rice University is the fifth best value, but ranked at number 15 in the Best Colleges competition...
...beginning to look a little too eager for war. Just a day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a new dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein - a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda - both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that...
BEST RESTAURANT Each region in China offers its own local treats, and Shanghai is no exception. Try down home Shanghainese fare at Jesse's restaurant. The braised pork shoulder, drunken prawns and red dates stuffed with sticky rice are the best in town. 41 Tianping Road, near the intersection with Huaihai Road...