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...umbrella designed to protect your camera. Once you've set up your tripod, this goes up top, above the camera, so that the storm doesn't drench your $1,000 device. In a downpour, setting up and adjusting the umbrella to protect your camera may prove a tricky task. And how often are you desperate to set up a tripod photo when it's raining hard enough to require an umbrella? It'll only cost $25 to find...
...Inspector O has a simple mission: sit on a hill at dawn and photograph a car traveling the long, ruler-straight road connecting Pyongyang with the border to the South. But this is North Korea, where even the easiest task is complicated by penury-the camera he is given has a dead battery-and fraught with politics. Returning to the capital, O is unexpectedly grilled by two senior intelligence officials with a keen interest in the car he didn't photograph. Becoming embroiled with the secret services is a dangerous proposition for any North Korean, even a policeman...
...move to do so this year. Normally, such a change would threaten to destabilize a region long wary of any resurgence of Japanese militarism. But Abe has worked hard to improve relations with his neighbors-a fact reflected in their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took Tokyo to task for "converting the Japanese islands into a 'war state,'" the Chinese Foreign Ministry merely expressed hope that the change would not derail Japan's "peaceful development." "It's significant that China didn't really criticize it," says Hisahiko Okazaki, a foreign-policy adviser to Abe. It probably doesn't hurt that...
...Faculty’s small number of meetings is disheartening. Last year, the Faculty was able to muster the courage and patience to meet 14 times, including a January meeting. But when meetings were scheduled for this year, the Faculty decided to revert—even with the daunting task of finalizing the curricular review before it—to its normal, nine-meeting schedule...
...master plan forecasting development as far into the future as 2057. Up until now Harvard has provided information to residents project by project, the latest an architect’s rendition of the four-building science complex to house stem cell research. At Monday’s Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting at the Honan-Allston Branch Library, Harvard officials said the master plan would be available on the Web site of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) by the end of this week. But some in the crowd of nearly 100 still weren’t pleased with the information...