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...roguishness of states, however, is in the eye of the beholder. North Korea has moved to thaw relations with South Korea. For that matter, the State Department has announced it will no longer use the term rogue state and instead will substitute the more benign description "state of concern." In a new book, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy, Robert S. Litwak, a former National Security Council staff member, argues that the term distorts policymaking by demonizing whole countries. Just a handful of nations make up the nuclear club, and these aspiring members are under constant scrutiny. "The ballistic-missile...
...limitations are still severe. (See previous story.) Critics argue that simple countermeasures by enemy states--such as the use of radar-absorbing materials or balloon decoys--may be enough to foil the U.S.'s pricey shield. Rogue states looking to deliver bombs could simply send them in on cargo ships or in suitcases. One of the few skeptics in Congress, Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, has proposed an amendment to next year's defense-authorization bill requiring that the missile shield be given more realistic tests employing the countermeasures that foes would be likely to use...
...nevertheless be the kind they should get used to. The Microsoft antitrust trial--where Gates was pilloried with his own e-mail--taught America not to archive e-mail. Dumpstergate's lesson is that if you're going to record data on anything as retro as paper and use anything as low tech as a Dumpster, you'd better remember to use a shredder...
...critics were forgiving. "While what Ellison did was distasteful, the facts that were exposed were despicable," says J. Michael Washe, founder of the website Breakupmicrosoft.org But many neutral parties were worried that the tech industry was stooping to new lows in skulduggery. "It's not the kind of use of resources anyone can be proud of," says Ruben Barrales, president of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a nonprofit economic-development organization...
...tree. Just up Avenue G., Patty Tucker, a 66-year-old widow who moved down off the bluffs and into an incredible loft above the old bank building four years ago, is peering from her window to see if her girlfriends at the Ivy Bake Shoppe can use an extra hand with the lunch crowd...