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"The whispers of Isber's age were everywhere in Marjayoun. They spoke of a time in which I never lived but had envisioned so often that, to me, it was almost more familiar than the present. It was the era whose fragments and civilities - the remnants of the Ottomans and the Levant - had originally drawn me to the Middle East."

Much about House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid is revealed in this passage from page 133.?Isber was Shadid's great grandfather, a man who after 1900 built a stately house on a hill to claim his membership in the society of Marjayoun, a vibrant town of Christian and Muslim merchants in Southern Lebanon. The wealth and tolerance of the community soon disappeared in the upheaval following the dismantling of the Ottoman empire after World War I. Isber sent his children to the United States and Brazil to escape violence, and he then died prematurely. His widow lived in the house until the 1960s after which it began to crumble. It was occupied by an Israeli agent during the 1982 war and was struck by a small missile. Shadid, who grew up in a Lebanese community in Oklahoma, took a year off from his job with the Washington Post to rebuild the house, hoping to rebuild his family as well.

In House of Stone, Shadid retells stories from his family while describing the slow restoration of Isber's house and gardens. Throughout there are strained relations with his foreman and various craftsmen who have a very different sense of time than Shadid. He also visits relatives and prominent citizens of the community. My favorite is Dr. Khairalla, a wise retired hospital administrator who gives Shadid cuttings for his garden. The doctor was convicted of treason (but never sentenced) for having dealt with the Israelis during the occupation, something he had to do to keep the hospital open.

Shadid was a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism and is nominated again this year for his coverage of events in Syria. In February 2012, he died from an asthma attack while clandestinely crossing the Syrian border from having interviewed Syrian rebels. His book was published in March. Like his great grandfather, his stay in the house was short.

Shadid, Anthony. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 311p. ISBN 9780547134666.

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Consulting News: PwC Named a Leader in Global Business ...

PwC has announced it has been named a leader in business consulting services in the worldwide, Americas, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets, according to the 2012 IDC MarketScape reports. The IDC MarketScape reports are based on a vendor analysis model designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of suppliers in a given market.

According to the reports, PwC is recognized as achieving the "Leader" classification in three regions including the worldwide, Americas and EMEA markets. PwC is also considered a "Major Player" in the Asia/Pacific market. According to IDC:

"Worldwide, PwC is seen as better than many of its peers at providing a full spectrum of business consulting services and at helping enterprises comply with new or existing regulations and manage risk. PwC is also seen as better than many of its peers at helping clients reduce costs."

"[In the Americas,] PwC is seen as among the most capable at integrating its project team with the client's and at providing a full spectrum of business consulting services. It is also seen as better than many of its peers at challenging corporate culture."

"In the Americas, PwC is seen as better than many of its peers at delivering innovation in the project and at delivering ROI for the project. It is also seen as better than many of its peers at helping clients expand into new markets or geographies and at helping clients identify and implement options for growth."

"[In EMEA,] PwC is seen as better than many of its peers at providing a full spectrum of business consulting services."

"In Asia/Pacific, PwC is seen as better than many of its peers at applying proven methodologies/tools and leveraging local resources."

"PwC's consistent ranking in IDC's series of MarketScape reports underscores our focus on delivering high quality and relevant advisory services to clients around the world, helping them from strategy through execution to achieve a competitive advantage in today's market," said Dana Mcilwain, PwC Vice Chairman and U.S. Advisory Leader. "Our "Leader" and "Major Player" rankings reflect our commitment to building deep relationships with our clients, working closely with them to find opportunities for innovation and growth, manage risk and address their most pressing business challenges."

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About PwC's Advisory Practice

PwC's Advisory professionals help organizations improve business performance, respond quickly and effectively to crisis, and extract value from transactions. We understand our clients' industries and unique business challenges, and look across the entire organization -- focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology -- to help clients build their next competitive advantage. See http://www.pwc.com/us/consulting for more information.

About the PwC Network

PwC firms help organizations and individuals create the value they're looking for. We're a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Tell us what matters to you and find out more by visiting us at www.pwc.com .? 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership. All rights reserved. PwC refers to the US member firm, and may sometimes refer to the PwC network. Each member firm is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.

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'Earth Hour' Pauses at U.S. Border

Earth Hour 2011 Eiffel Tower Image: Earth Hour Global

Consider an hour without power, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, local time. Organizers say as many as 1.8 billion will join in the symbolic environmental event worldwide. But if you live in the US, your neighbors may think you just blew a fuse. ?

Earth Hour starts in the mid-Pacific Islands on Saturday night, March 31 with an hour of voluntary electrical blackouts in Tonga. ?

The event moves on to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, where stars helping promote the event include an Australian model, an Indian cricket champion and a Russian heavyweight boxer.?

Following the sunset, Earth Hour heads west, where hotels and office buildings across the Persian Gulf will go dark. In Dubai, the world?s tallest building ? the Burj Khalifa ? will stand lightless. Five-star hotels in Saudi Arabia will burn a few hundred gallons less oil in that quiet hour. ?Even Libya, fresh from many involuntary blackouts, will host Earth Hour events.?

A long list of events are also scheduled for Europe: Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will all go dark ?for one hour when the clocks strike 8:30 p.m.?

Barely notice
Yet few Americans have ever heard of Earth Hour, and only a few dozen high profile events are scheduled. While the Empire State Building and the United Nations in New York City will go dark, most of New York will barely notice.

Earth Hour has only one US press coordinator to publicize the event. Slovenia has two. India has three. Brunei has five.?

Conceived in Australia in 2007 at World Wildlife Fund's Sydney office, and promoted by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, Earth Hour?s global popularity may reflect a disparity between U.S. and international receptivity to environmental symbolism. ??

?In Asia and the Middle east, you'll find that people are less aware about the risks of climate change and global warming,? a spokesman for the Kuwaiti team said. ?The Earth Hour campaign carries a simple message ? so that people can be easily engaged environmentally.??

Of course, the U.S. has had its own original Earth Day celebration since 1970. A Google news search delivers 33,000 links focused on Earth Day, more than three weeks away. Earth Hour, meanwhile, had only 6,000 hits hours before it began in the far Pacific.?

Strikes a chord
The original Earth Day has been the centerpiece of the US and European environmental movement for four decades, and it continues to engage grassroots groups around world, said Dennis Hayes, the principal ?Earth Day founder who continues to chair the global advisory committee.

The lack of enthusiasm stateside for Saturday's event could be cultural: From Earth Day to Earth Hour seems like downsizing, a concession to the less committed, Grist Magazine joked.?

But the serious news about Earth Hour is nearly all international.

Hundreds of items in small publications in Asia, Africa and the Middle East show that the event strikes a chord in smaller cites as much as large ones, and in traditional societies as much as westernized ones.?

Typical was a statement by the mayor of Taguig ? a city of 600,000 in the Philippines. "Participating in the activity signifies one's support for environmental protection, as well as the campaign to solve or at least mitigate the ill effects of climate change to the environment," said Lani Cayetano.

Bill Kovarik is a journalist and a professor of communication at Radford College in Southwestern Virginia.

This article originally appeared at The Daily Climate, the climate change news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.

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Posted March 29, 2012 by EricSSadler in Love. Tagged: Invitations, wedding. Comments Off

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It might be ?snowing microbes? on one of Saturn?s moons

Is there life beneath the icy surface of Enceladus? (AP/NASA)

A NASA scientist says there's a good chance of finding extraterrestrial life inhabiting one of Saturn's tiny orbiting moons.

"More than 90 jets of all sizes near Enceladus's south pole are spraying water vapor, icy particles, and organic compounds all over the place," says Carolyn Porco, an award-winning planetary scientist and leader of the Imaging Science team for NASA's Cassini spacecraft. "Cassini has flown several times now through this spray and has tasted it. And we have found that aside from water and organic material, there is salt in the icy particles. The salinity is the same as that of Earth's oceans."

NASA says the watery jets are erupting through icy cracks in a "vast underground sea" on this moon's surface. And the sea may be home to microbes similar to those found in some of the deepest parts of our own planet's oceans. While there is no direct sunlight reaching beneath the surface, Saturn's own orbit may be creating enough heat beneath the surface of Enceladus to helped create the tiny life-forms.

When filmmaker James Cameron returned from his historic voyage to the bottom of the Mariana Trench this week, he said the virtually unexplored depths reminded him of an isolated lunar landscape.

But since the watery jets of Enceladus are spewing with enough velocity to reach into outer space, astronauts may not even need to make a heralding voyage to Enceladus, or beneath its icy surface.

"It's erupting out into space where we can sample it. It sounds crazy but it could be snowing microbes on the surface of this little world," Porco said. "In the end, it is the most promising place I know of for an astrobiology search. We don't even need to go scratching around on the surface. We can fly through the plume and sample it."

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Skeptical Justices Ask Tough Questions About The Insurance ...

In yesterday's oral arguments, the grilling?aimed at the Obama administration's lawyer?by the court's?conservatives raised the prospect that the law's centerpiece could be overturned. ??

The Washington Post: Supreme Court Expresses Doubts On Key Constitutional Issue In Health Care Law
In an intense interrogation of the government's lawyer, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the justices posed repeated and largely unanswered questions about the limits of federal power. At the end of two hours, the court seemed split on the same question that has divided political leaders and the country: whether the Constitution gives Congress the power to compel Americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty (Barnes and Aizenman, 3/27).

The Wall Street Journal: Justices Question Health Law
The Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply challenged the Obama administration's health care overhaul Tuesday, raising clearly the prospect that the president's signature domestic achievement could be struck down. The court's liberal and conservative wings seemed inclined to split evenly over the question of whether the "individual mandate" requiring Americans to carry health insurance or pay a fine is constitutional (Bravin, 3/27).

Reuters: Skeptical Justices Question Obama Health Care Law
The Obama administration faced skeptical questioning from a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives on Tuesday during a tense two-hour showdown over a sweeping health care law that has divided Americans. A ruling on the law's key requirement that most people obtain health insurance or face a penalty appeared likely to come down to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, two conservatives who pummeled the administration's lawyer with questions (Biskupic and Vicini, 3/27).

The New York Times: In Court, Sharp Questions On Health Care Law's Mandate
With the fate of President Obama?s health care law hanging in the balance, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage of skeptical questions on Tuesday from four of the Supreme Court?s more conservative justices, suggesting that a 5-to-4 decision to strike down the law was a live possibility (Liptak, 3/27).

Reuters: Broccoli, Cellphones And The Obama Health Care Law
If Congress has the power to require that Americans obtain health insurance, U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday asked hypothetical questions on what would be next -- insisting that people eat broccoli, buy a cellphone or get burial insurance? During a second day of arguments over President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts likened health care services for the sick to such emergency services as police, fire and ambulance assistance (Vicini, 3/27).

Kaiser Health News: Day 2: Justices Grill Obama Administration On Health Law
Kaiser Health News contributor Stuart Taylor, Jr., tells Jackie Judd the conservative justices were especially skeptical today, asking sometimes-hostile questions of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli (3/27). Read the interview?transcript or watch the video.

NPR: Mandate's Fate Seems To Rest On Kennedy, Roberts
At the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, hostile questioning from key justices seemed to imperil the individual mandate, the central provision of the Obama health care overhaul. ? But for supporters of the law, the worrisome questions came from Justice Anthony Kennedy, the justice who most often swings the court in 5-4 decisions (Totenberg, 3/27).

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Looking For Signs Of How Justices Will Rule
The law's supporters had pinned their hopes on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has often cast the swing vote in decisions that split on ideological lines. But Kennedy seemed just as skeptical of the mandate as the other conservatives. He described it as "unprecedented" and saw a "heavy burden of justification" to uphold it under the Constitution. Without Kennedy's vote, the law's supporters face long odds (Field, 3/28).

NPR: Supreme Court Cheat Sheet: A Quick Guide To The Day 2 Arguments
In contrast to Monday's dense and technical arguments, Tuesday's session was filled with sharp rhetorical volleys and clever analogies. Here are some of the more telling exchanges between the lawyers and the high court justices (Halloran, 3/27).

Market Watch: Justices Show Split Over Health-Insurance Mandate
Supreme Court justices appeared to be split largely along ideological lines after hearing arguments over whether U.S. citizens should be made to buy insurance or pay a penalty -- the central issue in the health-care-reform debate -- in a second day of hearings Tuesday. Transcripts of the day's proceedings, however, indicated that there may be two swing votes in Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's perennial ideological straddler, Justice Anthony Kennedy (Britt, 3/27).

Modern Healthcare: Administration Attorney Strains For Answers On Insurance Mandate
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. faced a withering barrage of questions Tuesday from Supreme Court justices about what limits would remain on congressional power if federal lawmakers can force Americans to perform an act such as purchasing health insurance. All three attorneys supporting and opposing the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act faced skeptical justices and tough questions during the two hours of arguments, but Verrilli, arguing for the Obama administration, struggled to come up with a precise definition of the principle that would limit Congress' powers (Carlson, 3/27).

Politico: Did Verrilli Choke? And Does It Really Matter?
Tuesday may have been the biggest day in Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's career, when he went before the Supreme Court to defend the central tenet of the health care?reform law. To many who were watching, it looked like he choked. "He was passive. He was stumbling. He was nervous," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told POLITICO. "I was just shocked.? His halting delivery was so pronounced that?BuzzFeed?mercilessly edited together 40 seconds of coughing, throat clearing and water-drinking. "I've seen him argue under pressure," said Arnold and Porter's Lisa Blatt, a former assistant to the solicitor general who's argued 30 cases before the Supreme Court. Blatt, who listened to audio of the argument, said, "That's not the way he usually sounds" (Feder, 3/27).

Bloomberg: Some Justices Question Health Law's Constitutionality
U.S. Supreme Court justices hinted they might strike down President Barack Obama?s health care law as the court's Republican appointees suggested Congress went too far by requiring Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty. On the second of three days of arguments in the historic case, justices' questions indicated they might split 5-to-4, with the court's five Republican appointees joining together to overturn the law (Stohr and Asseo, 3/27).

San Francisco Chronicle: 5 Conservative Judges Tough On Health Care Law
The Supreme Court's conservative justices tore into the Obama administration's signature health care law Tuesday, posing the question: If the government can make individuals buy health insurance, why can't it make them buy cell phones or even burial insurance? When they vote together, the five conservatives are a majority of the nine-member court. President Obama's legal team went into the second day of oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act knowing they needed to win over at least one conservative justice to join the four justices who appeared more sympathetic to upholding the law (Freedman, 3/28).

The Fiscal Times: High Court Heads for High Noon on Health Care Act
[Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg] asked about what will likely be the step for liberal reformers should health care reform be struck down: pursuit of a single-payer health care system. "You need a group to subsidize" people who need health care, she told Clement. "You're saying the only way that can be done is if the government does it itself. It has to be a government takeover. Is that your position?" (Goozner, 3/27).

Boston Globe: Court's Conservatives Question Health Law's Mandate
The Supreme Court's conservative justices raised concerns Tuesday that President Obama's health care law could open the door for the government to compel Americans to participate in all sorts of commerce, including the mandated purchase of cellphones, gym memberships, even burial insurance. The justices' probing questions during the second day of hearings over the constitutionality of Obama's signature health care overhaul served to jolt the law's supporters from any certitude that the court would find the requirement to have health insurance does not trample on individual rights (Jan, 3/27).

Kaiser Health News: Transcript: Highlights Of The Lively Arguments At The Supreme Court, Day 2
Kaiser Health News provides excerpts of some of the most compelling parts of Tuesday's oral arguments at the high court. Read selections highlighting how conservative justices aggressively challenged the government's position on the individual mandate?(3/27).

This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. In addition, our staff of reporters and correspondents file original stories each day, which you can find on our home page.

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From Michigan to Maine, cool spring temperatures are on the way. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.

>>> isn't it just like spring to lull you into a false sense of warmth before snapping back. tonight, 18 states are dealing with the threat of freezing temperatures. 11 are under full scale frost and freeze warnings from michigan to maine, including places like crops like lettuce and asparagus are already coming up up. in buffalo, new york, they're warning of a widespread hard freeze expected.

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Colbert toys with Romney aide's gaffe

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By Randee Dawn

He may have just come back?to "The Colbert Report" after?a little vacation, but Stephen Colbert isn't finished playing with his toys. Especially his Etch A Sketch, which he noted became wildly popular in his absence, thanks to Eric Fehrnstrom.

The Mitt Romney aide noted in an interview that after the nomination, the whole election process gets shaken up and zeroed out like an Etch A Sketch. The media, and Romney's fellow campaigners, went wild.

Suddenly, noted Colbert, all of the Republican presidential candidates were wielding thetoy, which was originally placed on the market in 1960. As Rick Santorum noted, "My public policy isn't written on an Etch A Sketch. It's written on my heart.

Aww. The problem, said Colbert, is that "the only way to read what's written on Rick Santorum's heart is with a trans-vaginal ultrasound."

But for all of the waving around of toys, everyone knew what Fehrnstrom really meant, said Colbert. "He?s just saying that a candidate will say anything to get the nomination, then say anything to get elected, then say anything to get a second term, then stand on principle. For six months, until he?s a lame duck. You know, courage!?

And in the end, the Etch A Sketch comment has done one thing Romney has been promising: It has boosted business and brought back the economy ... at the Etch A Sketch factory, where sales of the toy are apparently booming.

Santorum was the subject of discussion over at "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" But the host was pointing to something a little less child-friendly in relation to the candidate: His newly-revealed potty-mouth.

After a recent speech in which Santorum noted that Mitt Romney was the worst Republican in the country to put up against President Obama, a reporter asked him about it -- and an uncharacteristically feisty, slightly sweaty Santorum bit back: "Will you guys quit distorting what I say? ... If I see it, it's bull----. Come on, man. What are you doing?"

Kimmel joked, "Juice makes him grumpy," then brought on Santorum's "brother," L. Brent, who defended his sibling: "The lamestream media loves a good story, even when that story is a fairytale," he said. "My brother has not and would not ever use profanity. It's against the Holy Bible and the Santorum family code."

So what did L. Brent actually think his "brother" said?

Check out the video above to find out.

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Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, looks at South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during their joint news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, looks at South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during their joint news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during their joint news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

U.S. President Barack Obama visits with South Korean troops at Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at the Blue House, the official presidential house, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak walk out together after their joint news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March, 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? President Barack Obama is broadening a squeeze play on North Korea from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning the unpredictable North that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation.

Obama sought for a second day Monday to contrast the success of the South to the impoverished North, whose nuclear and missile tests have kept its neighbor on edge and itself on the wrong side of the world community. Already, he said, looking into the North from near the border was like witnessing a "time warp" of despair.

In a speech at Hankuk University, Obama will campaign against the spread of nuclear material and weaponry with North Korea's shadow figuring large. The North plans to launch a satellite with a long-range rocket next month against fierce objections from world powers, as the same technology could be used to fire a missile.

Obama will tell students that he is confident the United States and Russia can jointly reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, building on the successful extension of arms control agreements known as START, the White House said Monday. The White House said nuclear weapons reduction continues to be a priority in U.S. relations with Russia, and that Obama will raise it with President-elect Vladimir Putin when they meet in May.

Obama will see outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev later Monday, on the sidelines of a major Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. With Medvedev, he signed the current START treaty two years ago.

Obama will also try to build diplomatic force by turning to China, North Korea's main ally, when he meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao. That conversation is among a flurry of engagements for Obama, including the final meeting with Medvedev.

Obama has called nuclear terrorism the gravest threat the United States and the world may face. North Korea is a prime suspect in the proliferation of some nuclear know-how, along with missiles that could be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction.

In a news conference here Sunday, Obama challenged North Korea's pride and its plans, questioning whether its new, young leader, Kim Jong Un, was even truly in charge. Obama's trip comes as North Korean marks the end of the 100-day mourning period for longtime leader Kim Jong Il, who died of a heart attack in December.

"It's not clear exactly who's calling the shots and what their long-term objectives are," Obama said. "But regardless of the North Korean leadership, what is clear is that they have not yet made that strategic pivot where they say to themselves, 'What we're doing isn't working. It's leading our country and our people down a dead end.'"

Obama then set some blunt expectations for China, questioning how much it was helping to ease tensions with North Korea by turning a "blind eye to deliberate provocations."

"That's obviously not working," Obama said. He said he did not doubt China shares the goal of a nuclear-weapons-free North Korea, but that it had to act on that.

The president's three-day trip here amounts to a reminder of the international struggles in his lap in the midst of a re-election year driven more by economic woes. He came to solidify pressure on North Korea, seek help with crises in Syria and Iran and advance a global effort he spearheaded to keep nuclear material from getting into terrorists' hands.

Obama wore a tired look after a 17-hour flight from Washington, a helicopter ride to the border zone, two sets of diplomatic talks, the news conference and an official dinner. But he succeeded in showing solidarity with his diplomatic friend, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and in cementing a lasting presidential image from inside no-man's land.

The Demilitarized Zone is a Cold War anachronism, a legacy of the uncertain armistice that ended the Korean War nearly 60 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of troops stand ready on both sides of the border zone, which is littered with land mines and encased in razor wire.

From a lookout point with binoculars is hand, Obama peered North, then South, within a football-field's length of the demarcation line.

He also shook hands and spoke briefly in the dining hall at a U.S. military camp just outside the 2.5-mile-zone, saying the troops were working at "freedom's frontier."

The United States has about 28,500 troops in South Korea, a deterrent force and a symbol of the military might Obama wants to keep in Asia.

The planned rocket launch by North Korea is yet another setback for the U.S. in years of on-again, off-again attempts to launch real negotiations.

North Korea walked away from international disarmament talks in 2009. Years of fitful negotiations had succeeded in ending part of North Korea's nuclear program but failed in stopping it from building and testing nuclear devices and long-range missiles that might be able to carry bombs.

Obama said the launch would jeopardize a new deal for the U.S. to resume food aid to North Korea, and the world community would likely respond with another round of sanctions.

The big consequence for North Korea, he said, would be one big blown opportunity.

"If a country can't feed its people effectively, if it can't make anything of any use to anybody, if it has no exports other than weapons, and even those aren't ones that in any way would be considered state-of-the-art ... then you'd think you'd want to try something different."

For his part, Lee said: "There is no difference of opinion between the U.S. and South Korea. We'll remain very calm and rational and we will be wise in dealing with the North Koreans if in fact they do go ahead with their announcement."

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AP National Security writer Anne Gearan and AP writers Jean H. Lee and Hyung-jin Kim contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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