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Also, less than 20 percent of North Korea is suitable for agriculture since most of the country is mountainous terrain. Still, the situation is better than the 1990s when a severe famine claimed as many as 2.4 million lives. Domestic production of staple crops such as rice and corn has grown although the country of just over 25 million people still remains dependent on food aid primarily from China . "Production has been increasing over the last five years because of changes in agriculture," said Linda Lewis, country director for DPRK at American Friends Service Committee, a Philadelphia-based Quaker organization that has worked with and in North Korea on agricultural and economic issues for several decades. DPRK is short for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North Korea's agriculture is centrally managed and based mostly on cooperative farms while a smaller portion are state industrial farms operated as government enterprises. The average farm in the country has nearly 3,000 people and gets its marching orders of what will be grown usually from the government. Even so, Lewis said there have been reforms by North Korea in the past several years that have allowed farmers "more local discretion and individual control over decisions on allocated pieces of land." The government also allows farmers to sell or barter food when there's a surplus beyond certain production targets. At the same time, changes in the management of agriculture by the government in the last five years have produced what Lewis calls "more resilience in the face of droughts." Zhang Jin | American Friends Service Committee Rice field in North Korea where the use of plastic trays for cultivating rice seedlings has improved production.
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Some want to learn about South Korea’s historical cultural links with their own country and the source of Korean drama that’s a rage on Chinese television. It’s too early to say for sure that Chinese will restart trips, and any increase would take time to rebuild. But signs are emerging. “It will take six months before group tourism will rebound because of time needed to organize and market tours,” says Charles Morrison, a senior scholar with the East-West Center think tank in Honolulu. “Individual tourism from China, however, is beginning to recover already, although it also takes time to plan vacations.” In December travel agencies in Beijing and the Chinese province of Shandong started selling Korea tour packages, Yonhap news agency reported. More on Forbes: Why North Korea's Strongman Kim Jong-un Is Emerging From Isolation The two sides’ foreign ministries agreed in October to normalize relations , and Korean President Moon Jae-in's upbeat state visit to China in December further eased the bad mood of a year ago. But China won’t push its travel agencies, many of them state-run, too fast in case South Korea and its neighbors imagine the boycotts don’t work, says Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of international studies at Ewha University in Seoul. “China is likely slow-rolling the removal of anti-THAAD measures in an attempt to make future economic threats credible to South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and ASEAN countries,” Easley says. “Maintaining the fiction that boycotts against South Korea are grassroots behavior is meant to give Beijing plausible deniability for possible trade rule violations.” As Chinese started avoiding South Korea, their arrivals fell 61% from March to October for a total of 2.38 million compared to the same period a year earlier, Korean Tourism Organization statistics show. In January this year, 305,127 Chinese visitors reached South Korea, a decline of 46% from the same month of 2017. Tourism statistics for February 2018, a major travel season for China due to its extended Lunar New Year holiday, haven’t come out.
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Even so, the A8 rides beautifully, being slightly wobbly in Comfort mode but fairly immaculate in Auto and near-perfectly level in Dynamic. In fact, the latter ‘sportier’ mode could be the pick of the three on the freeway or over rough roads. Otherwise, the steering is nice and measured, except when the optional (at $4500 extra) dynamic function is ticked. It adds four-wheel steering as well, and makes this upper-large sedan feel nervous just off-centre, with little weight or feedback to help a driver out. Otherwise, the ‘base’ petrol short wheelbase proved the sweetest drive, feeling supernaturally light on its feet considering its size, and being both grippy and decently agile. A three-year, unlimited kilometre warranty is below average these days, especially for such an expensive vehicle. Audi has not yet announced a capped-price servicing package for A8. 11 airbags, switchable electronic stability control (ESC), blind-spot monitor, door exit warning and assist, attention assist, adaptive cruise control, lane-keep warning and assistance, autonomous emergency braking (AEB) to 85km/h for pedestrians and 250km/h for forward vehicles, intersection assistance with AEB to 30km/h for side traffic, and automatic up/down LED high-beam. Further options include automatic-adaptive matrix and laser LED high-beam with OLED rear lights at $13,200 extra, and a night vision assistant that electronically visualises dark surroundings via the display at $5200 extra. This is a mostly magnificent way to travel.
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After, she'll rinse off the residue, and repeat the whole process the next day if necessary. "It still takes a day after the last application to show you a significant difference," she wrote. Three days passed between the before-and-afters above. Although internet hacks can be unreliable, New York-based dermatologist Joshua Zeichner , M.D., director of cosmetic and clinical research at Mount Sinai Hospital's Department of Dermatology, says this one may check out. "Menthol is added to skincare products for both its cooling and anti-inflammatory properties. Since it can calm inflamed skin, it may be a benefit in treating mild sunburns," he says — with emphasis on the word mild: "If you have a severe burn or blisters in the skin, I do not recommend using this as an option." A better bet, in this case, would be to contact your doctor. Above all, Dr. Zeichner recommends traditional post-sun skincare products . But if you're dealing with red skin and tenderness, happen to have a menthol-based shaving foam on hand, and want to try this, leave it on no longer than 30 minutes and remove it immediately if you develop a burning or stinging sensation, he says. If any irritation occurs, rinse it off ASAP for relief. Allen-Stewart prefers her method because you can rinse the foam off, and it doesn't feel sticky like other products.
Israel Passes ‘National Home’ Law, Drawing Ire of Arabs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, with his cabinet on Sunday. He said a measure that enshrined Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people” would “guarantee the foundations of our existence.”CreditPool photo by Ronen Zvulun Israel’s Parliament passed legislation early Thursday that declared Israel to be the “national home of the Jewish people,” drawing heavy opposition from those who said it also harmed the rights of Israeli Arabs. The legislation, adopted by a vote of 62 to 55 after hours of impassioned debate, alters the status of Arabic from an official language to a “special” one, and says the right to national self-determination rests solely with the Jewish people. The measure also broadly encourages the establishment of Jewish communities. Israeli lawmakers had earlier removed a contentious provision that could have allowed housing discrimination. “This is a defining moment,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said shortly after the vote, the newspaper Haaretz reported . “Long live the State of Israel.” Mr. Netanyahu had said earlier that the bill was “very important to guarantee the foundations of our existence, which is Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab lawmaker, speaking to reporters, vigorously denounced the legislation. “I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy,” Mr. Tibi said.
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What the research uncovered, according to Tuttle, is that shoppers are pretty predictable. If they like the cut and style of a pair of pants, they’ll keep replacing those same pants, she said. In fact, repeat purchases were made during 83 percent of shopping excursions. And if sportswear was involved, that figure jumped to 87 percent. The idea that customers are more likely to make repeat purchases than anything else could seem surprising during a time that’s seen journalism repeatedly raise concerns about fast fashion , the Confessions of a Shopaholic series, and exposés like Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion . In that book, one shopper confessed, “I have enough clothing to open a store.” But if most Americans really are shopping responsibly, it could be related to the research suggesting that millennials in particular would rather spend money on experiences than on stuff . The prevalence of sensible shopping isn’t the only surprise Tuttle and Sporn found. Their study also challenged perceptions about online shopping versus brick-and-mortar consumption. “It is apparent that people are still shopping at stores,” Tuttle said. “Seventy-nine percent of people are still going to a store. Some of those people are going online first, but ‘retail apocalypse’ is not the term we’re at yet.” “79 percent of people are still going to a store” But the term is everywhere, from the Atlantic to Business Insider to, yes, Racked .