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RUMORS and dreams of a unified Korea are losing their luster for citizens of prosperous South Korea almost as quickly as North Korea's short-range missiles burn out. Kim Jong-un's first 18 months as "supreme... More>>
IN WASHINGTON there is a hackneyed but still useful expression: "Kicking the can down the road." It means putting off dealing with a difficult problem until some unspecified time in the future in the hopes that in the... More>>
BRIDGE the Gap to Health has become a Quincy tradition that attracts runners, walkers, celebrity race marshals and sponsors to participate in an event where everyone is a winner Founded in 2001, by Dr. John Scott, Bridge... More>>
THE RUSSIAN propaganda apparatus may need an infusion of fresh talent to impart a much-needed touch of realism for what movie theaters used to call "selected short subjects." This arcane branch of Russian cinematography... More>>
MANY OF of Barack Obama's supporters probably believed -- a belief the candidate encouraged -- that, if elected, he would rein in the worst excesses of President George W. Bush's national-security strategy. The... More>>
THE CONSENSUS has been that the economy will continue to recover slowly but steadily unless Congress does something to mess it up. But surveys of economists by The Wall Street Journal and USA Today indicate that the... More>>
FOR YEARS, Senate Republicans taunted their Democratic counterparts for their inability to pass a budget for the coming fiscal year. According to what is known in Washington as "regular order," early each year the House... More>>
U.S. highway fatalities jumped by 1,713 last year, ending a string of year-to-year declines that began after 2005. Statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put the initial 2012 highway death toll... More>>
THIS WEEK we learned that back on Feb. 16, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to bring down his weight. It was certainly no secret that the popular Christie was grossly overweight... More>>
FISCAL FANATICS, budget obsessives and other devotees of federal fine print who had looked forward to a vicious late spring and early summer congressional bloodletting over the debt ceiling will have to delay their... More>>
FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Hollande, deliriously welcomed into office last May 6 by the Socialists, who had been out of power for nearly 20 years, is setting a postwar record for a plunge in popularity, from 60 percent to 44... More>>
THE RESCUE phase of the collapsed Bangladeshi factory building came to a heartbreaking end Sunday when the last known survivor died of smoke inhalation from a rescue attempt gone wrong. Shaheena, trapped under the rubble... More>>
THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate for would-be workers 20 to 24 is just about double the 7.6 percent for the workforce as a whole. This is the age when young adults are anxious, or should be, to launch a career and employers should be... More>>
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