No iPods To Kim Jong Il

American Voices

December 4, 2006 | ISSUE 42•48

The White House has imposed a ban on the sale of iPods to North Korea. What do you think?

This won't do a damn thing. Everybody knows Zune is the preferred MP3 player of the Axis of Evil.

Sean McGill
Shoe Salesman
Ouch! Right in the middle of the North Korean Christmas shopping season, too.

Allara Jones
Systems Analyst
I don't know what good it will do to impose petty sanctions tailored specifically to annoy a crazy foreign leader with nuclear weapons, but what can it hurt?

Kai Thornton
Large Truck Mechanic

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
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05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.