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...very gratifying that this plant has abided by the principle of profitability... intensifying the ideological education among producers to thoroughly ensure profitability." KIM JONG IL, leader of communist North Korea, hailing the productivity of a machine-tool factory, as reported by the state-run Korea Central News Agency...
DIED. ARNOLD BECKMAN, 104, scientist and philanthropist whose inventions revolutionized the chemical industry by replacing laborious procedures with accurate, user-friendly electronic instruments; in La Jolla, Calif. Among his inventions: a simple, speedy tool for measuring acidity called the pH meter...
...East Europeans of other ethnicities exploring their communities' past. "The Yizkor-book pages are linking people in the West, Holocaust survivors and children of survivors to non-Jewish people in those European towns," Field says. Sixty years after the horrors of the Holocaust, the Internet is serving as a tool of reconciliation. "The younger generation is realizing that they are missing a significant part of their history," she adds. "This type of material was suppressed by the communists," who severely restricted access to Jewish archival records...
...front-page piece in Le Monde last week, Mamère wrote that he was performing the wedding in order to use "provocation as a political tool." The Marseillan wedding will follow two weeks later, and at least two other French mayors have said they're willing to perform gay or lesbian marriages if asked. A French public prosecutor last week faxed Mamère a warning against following through with the wedding, admonishing him that "as a person invested with public authority you should abstain from all initiatives destined to block the execution...
...alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie; and left-leaning political activists, Al Gore and Al Franken among them, are rallying around the film as a consciousness-raising tool. But wait a minute: that puts them in bed with Fox, the studio that produced the movie--Fox, as in right-leaning Fox News, which is owned by Bush-supporting billionaire Rupert Murdoch. All this raises the question, How fine is the line between politics and marketing? And, for that matter, how about the line between...